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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (slang, derogatory, chiefly US) An illegal immigrant of any country.
- (slang) An item or items of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale.
- A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
- A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
- (slang) A tank.
- (cricket, colloquial) A resounding strike of the ball; a powerful hit of the ball with the bat.
Huudahdus
- Representing a sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
Verbi
- (cricket, colloquial, transitive) To knock or strike (a ball) so that it flies through the air.
Adjektiivi
- (slang, UK) Big, muscular, massive.
Esimerkit
- 1990: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee - An agent, Larry Moy, when asked to define the derivation of the term “tonk,” replied: “...it's the sound of flashlight hitting somebody's head, tonk". [This "derivation" is incorrect - see Etymology]
- 1998: Cirenio Rodriguez & Enrique T Trueba, Leadership, education and political action, in Ethnic Identity and Power: Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society - "Catch as many tonks as you guys can. Safely. An alien is not worth busting a leg."
- 2005: EMF (poster on The QandO Blog in response to Illegal immigration made easy, read at http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=789 on 27 May 2006) - The pissed off Arizona land owner who snipes the tonks with a high powered rifle.
- How much tonk have we got to shift?
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