tonk

plural tonks

1. USderogatoryslangAn illegal immigrant of any country.

   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."

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   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]

   2005: EMF (poster on The QandO Blog in response to Illegal immigration made easy, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060528001651/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.

plural tonks

1. countableslanguncountableAn item or items of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale.

   How much tonk have we got to shift?

alternative tunk

1. uncountableA matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.

   It has big deep-down chairs and a card table by the window covered with jade, dracena and doctor plants until they want to have card games or play tonk between themselves.

   1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 13

1. Representing a sound produced by knocking on something hollow.

   In one of those stampings into the yard he suddenly rushed at the tank and tapped it. Tonk, tonk, tonk, tab. One rung left. Only one rung; about a week's supply of water.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 153

plural tonks

1. A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
2. colloquialball gamesA resounding strike of the ball; a powerful hit of the ball with the bat.

present singular third person tonks · participle present tonking · participle past tonked · past tonked

1. colloquialtransitiveball gamesTo knock or strike (a ball) so that it flies through the air.

   Moments later, Sehwag tonked the ball and it travelled some distance.

   2014, Makarand Waingankar, Guts & Glory

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   Then your dad would step up and spend 45 minutes repeatedly tonking the ball over the shower block […]

   2012, Iain Macintosh, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cricket But Were Too Afraid to Ask

plural tonks

1. slangA tank.

comparative tonker · superlative tonkest

1. UKslangBig, muscular, massive.

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   In this new paradigm of masculine excellence, anyone can achieve physical perfection if they put in the hours. It is an aspirational narrative, accompanied by a specific vernacular. Men are hench, wammo or tonk. […] Whereas the vest-wearing action stars of the 80s needed physical strength to hoik themselves into lift shafts and avert terrorism, today’s uber-tonk males wear their six-packs like beautiful, pointless feathers: this is a cosmetic muscularity, rather than a functional one.

   2018 June 27, Sirin Kale, “‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: hench, able-bodied, athletic, Atlantean, beefy, beefed out, brawny, brolic

plural Tonks

1. A Tonkinese cat.

1. A district of Rajasthan, India.