zonk
/zɒŋk
/informal
verb
1 [with object] Hit or strike: Charley really zonked me...
- Short commented that he was seriously considering giving up competing in elite tournaments, as they were ‘zonking his brain.’
- She zonked me again on the head with this hairbrush.
2Fall or cause to fall suddenly and heavily asleep or lose consciousness: [no object]: I always just zonk out and sleep straight through...
- And on Friday it was a welcome time for me to zonk out!
- I just gotta read over some of the stuff coz when I'm writing it I sometimes zonk out.
- You wake up early or zonk out unconscious for hours.
Origin
1940s: imitative.
Rhymes
- multi-flue
- multifocal
- multifocally
- multifoil
- multifoiled
- multifold
- multifoliate
- multifoliolate
- multifont
- multifork
- multiforked
- multiform
- multiformity
- multiformly
- multifractal
- multi-frequency
- multi-fuel
- multi-fueled
- multi-fuelled
- multifunction
- multifunctional
- multifunctionality
- multifunction polis
- multifurcate
- multigene