bonked
past simple and past participle ofbonk
bonk
verb
uk/bɒŋk/us/bɑːŋk/bonkverb(HIT)
[T]informalhumorous
tohitsomeone or something, not very hard:
He bonked me on theheadwith hisnewspaper.
Hitting and beating
- at-risk
- bangsomeoneup
- basher
- bashing
- battered
- brain
- bunch
- butt
- head-butt
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knocksomeone'sblock offidiom
- mess
- swing
- tansomeone'shideidiom
- tar
- wallop
- whop
- whup
bonkverb(HAVE SEX)
[IorT]UKhumorousslang
to havesexwith someone:
"I never bonked him," sheclaimed.
bonkverb(IN SPORTS)
[I]sportsinformalspecialized
toreachapointwhere you have noenergyleftandfeelyou cannotcontinuephysicalexercise,especiallywhenridingabicycleorrunning:
Helostsignificanttimetokeyrivalsin amountainstage, when he didn'teatenough and bonked on thefinalclimb.
- Fat andproteinslowdigestion, so anycarbsyou get frombeefjerkywon'thelpyourmuscles'tilyou've already bonked.
- Emma has to befedenergygelswhen she bonks aftercheckpointone.
Effort and expending energy
- assiduity
- assiduous
- assiduously
- assiduousness
- be running on emptyidiom
- burn
- elbow grease
- fight
- hamster wheel
- hard at itidiom
- heavy lifting
- heroically
- kill
- push
- putsomethingin/putsomethingintosomething
- rearguard action
- set/putyourmind tosomethingidiom
- shot
- slog
- slugger
Examplesofbonked
bonked
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
He led the race to the final 5 meters where hebonkedand dropped from first to seventh place.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thomson badlybonkedon the day's last climb, and wound up being passed by escapees from the main peloton.
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- subject heading
- subjecting
- subjection
- subjective
- subjective aspect
- subjective assessment
- subjective component
- subjective decision
- subjective dimension
- subjective element
- subjective evaluation
- subjective experience
- subjective impression
- subjective interpretation
- subjective judgment
- subjectively
- subjective nature
- subjective norm
- subjective opinion
- subjective perception
- subjective perspective
- subjective probability
- subjective self
- subjective value
- subjective view