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▪ I. zonk, int. (n.) slang.|zɒŋk|
[Echoic.]
Representing the sound of a blow or heavy impact, used to indicate finality. Occas. as n. (see quots.).
1949T. Rattigan Harlequinade 38 Just sit there and relax and I'll dash and get you an enormous zonk of whisky. 1958Spectator 15 Aug. 218/2, I..hurl it with a great zonk into the waste-paper basket. 1961Radio Times 16 Nov. 47/2, I never took a note when I was interrogating. The moment you got hold of a piece of paper they'd think ‘ah-hah..’ and zonk! they'd button up. 1968L. Deighton Only when I Larf i. 12 Silas..closed the safe door a few times. Zonk. It closed with a clang. 1979R. Blythe View in Winter i. 64 He was a man with a catapult. He'd knock a pheasant down—zonk!
▪ II. zonk, v. slang.
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To hit, strike, or knock. Also fig.
1950A. Melville Castle in Air i. in Plays of Year III. 338 If the Third Earl found that his wife had nipped off with another man while he was away at the Crusades, he'd have zonked her over the head with his kitbag. 1959P. Bull I know Face xi. 201 We found ourselves back in my flat..zonking down the drink. 1960I. Cross Backward Sex 188 She zonked me again on the head with this hairbrush. 1975New Yorker 21 July 67/1 William Green tried to assure them that care had been taken to put provisions in the bill to see to it that New England ‘doesn't get zonked’. 1979G. Watson Black Jack xxii. 178, I felt zonked by this idea. It had never occurred to me. 1982Observer 14 Nov. 15 ICI has invented a new adaptation to ethylene crackers that will zonk the competition and make feedstock costs less critical.
2. intr. To fail; to lose consciousness, to die.
1968Listener 14 Mar. 352/3 If Johnny zonked, it would be bad for my book. 1977N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Dec. 142 In a burst of determination, she'd been sitting in the bathtub doing her breathing for five hours straight—in one nostril, out the other—until she zonked and went rigid.
3. Const. out.
a. intr. To fall heavily asleep.
b. trans. To overcome or knock out (in fig. senses).
1970J. Sangster Touchfeather, Too iii. 75 He left me at seven a.m. and I zonked out until after mid-day. 1973Austral. Women's Weekly 26 Dec. 32/5, I sank into my bed.., zonked myself out with sleeping pills, and woke up Friday. 1980Telegraph (Brisbane) 21 Mar. 6/3 It's J. R.'s power that zonks women out. 1984N.Y. News Mag. 18 Mar. 18/2 If mothers zonk out at three in the afternoon every day, they may continue that pattern after it's no longer necessary. 1985Sunday Times 24 Feb. 36/6 No Junoesque oarswomen though... ‘I think I row because it zonks me out, then I don't row with anyone.’
Hence ˈzonking ppl. a. (freq. as quasi-adv. in zonking great).
1958Spectator 25 July 130/2 He would give one a zonking great clip on the ear. 1959P. Bull I know Face vi. 100 She was now technically a ‘star’ owing to her zonking success as Claudia. Ibid. vii. 126 She..is a zonking great film star. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 9 Feb. 36/4 Long Day's Journey..was the first big, zonking part he played after his cancer. 1976Times 21 May 4/7 Rather than play these zonking great parts..I will try to find some dazzling little cameo roles. |