EGAVE

thunk

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb past participle of think
    Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
  2. interjection Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
  3. verb To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
    I was thunked on the head by his stick.
  4. noun A delayed computation.
  5. noun In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  6. noun A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.
  7. verb To delay (a computation).
  8. verb To execute (code) by means of a thunk.

Similar words

thwonk thock thud thwop thwock kerplunk thump klunk clunk thwap

Often followed by

of it and as that on thunk is in

Word family

think thunked thunking thunks

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