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CLUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clunk mean? 

CLUNK (noun)
  The noun CLUNK has 1 sense:

1. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)play

  Familiarity information: CLUNK used as a noun is very rare.


CLUNK (verb)
  The verb CLUNK has 1 sense:

1. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the groundplay

  Familiarity information: CLUNK used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLUNK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

clump; clunk; thud; thump; thumping

Hypernyms ("clunk" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

clunk (make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground)

clunky (making a clunking sound)


CLUNK (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they clunk  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it clunks  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: clunked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: clunked  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: clunking  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

clop; clump; clunk; plunk

Hypernyms (to "clunk" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Cars clunk in the streets
The streets clunk with cars

Derivation:

clunk (a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects))


 Context examples 


If the hip is dislocated, it will relocate with an audible clunk, which is a positive result for this test.

(Ortolani Maneuver, NCI Thesaurus)

He would strike once with his thirty-pound swing sledge, and Jim twice with his hand hammer; and the Clunk—clink, clink! clunk—clink, clink! would bring me flying down the village street, on the chance that, since they were both at the anvil, there might be a place for me at the bellows.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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