bonk

present singular third person bonks · participle present bonking · participle past bonked · past bonked

1. informalTo hit or strike; to collide with something.

   Please let it be the cow. No such luck, The 'cow' picked up my big brass telescope and bonked me on the head with it.

   1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 57

2. UKambitransitiveinformalTo have sexual intercourse (with).

   But let’s not kid ourselves about bonking for Britain: this is just “the great replacement theory” with a tax code.

   2022 October 10, Zoe Williams, “The Tory minister’s ‘bonking for Britain’ idea is a vile vision lurking behind cheeky Carry On imagery”, in The Guardian

   2 more examples

   Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) What is a proper relationship? Louise (Lesley Sharp): Living with someone who talks to you after they've bonked ya.

   1993, Mike Leigh, Naked

   Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.

   1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman)

   Synonyms: boink, discuss Uganda, have sex, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate

3. hobbiesTo hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
4. informalhobbiesTo experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.

   I had eaten five of my six PowerBars. I was exhausted and famished. In cycling they describe what was happening to me as bonking: my body was out of fuel and had no more energy.

   2004, Gary Erickson, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Raising the Bar, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 29

   Synonyms: hit the wall

plural bonks

1. countableinformalA bump on the head.
2. countableinformalAny minor collision or blow.
3. UKcountableinformalAn act of sexual intercourse.

   “[…] It’s not like I’m just looking for a bonk, is it? This is something a bit different.” ¶ “Quite,” said Nick—though bonk was a troublingly casual way of referring to something which preoccupied him so much.

   2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

4. informaluncountableA condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
5. countableAn animal call resembling "bonk", such as the call of the pobblebonk.

plural Bonks

1. A surname.