Meanings
interjection
- A clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood.
Despite the construction of muffling sheds and sound barriers, the report has continued largely without interruption — thock, thock, thock-thock, thock.
2007 April 7, Andy Newman, “City Islanders Ponder Future Without Gunfire Across Bay”, in New York Times
nounthock (plural thocks)
plural thocks
- A clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood or the keys of a mechanical keyboard.
verbthock (third-person singular simple present thocks, present participle thocking, simple past and past participle thocked)
present singular third person thocks · participle present thocking · participle past thocked · past thocked
- To make, or cause to make, a thock sound.
The tennis player thocked her racquet on the ground in annoyance.
Origin
Onomatopoeic.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
thock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thock
MLA
“thock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thock. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thock,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thock.
Source: thock on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.