thunk

Plural: thunks

Noun

• a dull hollow sound
  • "the basketball made a thunk as it hit the rim"
• A delayed computation.
• In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
• A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.

Verb

Verb Forms: thunked, thunking, thunks

• To make a sudden, muffled, hollow sound.
• past participle of think
• To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
• To delay (a computation).
• To execute (code) by means of a thunk.

Intj

• Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.

Examples

• A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.
• I was thunked on the head by his stick.
• The heavy tile would THUNK satisfyingly as it landed on the triple letter score.
• Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?

Related Words

thunking

Anagrams of thunk