Standard Lemma guide

bonk

name · noun · verb · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /bɒŋk/
  • General-American: /bɑŋk/
  • General-American: /bɔŋk/
  • rhymes with -ɒŋk
  • CMU ARPABET: B AA1 NG K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A bump on the head.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any minor collision or blow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An act of sexual intercourse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, countable, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

An animal call resembling "bonk", such as the call of the pobblebonk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To hit or strike; to collide with something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To have sexual intercourse (with).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, ambitransitive, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boink, discuss Uganda, have sex, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, make love, mate, share a bed, sleep together, strain, bang, bauf, beat, bone, boff, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, clap cheeks, dance, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, expletive deleted, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, graft the forked tree, go all the way, haul one's ashes, have it away, have it off, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make it, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle, ming, Netflix and chill, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, pound, rail, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, shaboink, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, stick, tumble, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, beep, be with, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, fill, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, run through, rut, sard, schlong, see to, service, shaft, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, skateboarding, snowboarding, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hit the wall

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

hit hard

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sock, bop, whop, whap, bash

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: hit

12

verb

Meaning 12

have sexual intercourse with

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
  • Adam knew Eve
  • Were you ever intimate with this man?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: copulate, mate, pair, couple

Narrower terms: take, have, fornicate

History

Etymology

Possibly from Polish Bonk.

Of imitative origin. Compare English bang, bounce, bump.

Across languages

Translations

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: bony — bump on the head
  • French: bosse — bump on the head
  • Italian: bernoccolo — bump on the head
  • Italian: bozzo — bump on the head
  • Italian: bitorzolo — bump on the head
  • Italian: rigonfiamento — bump on the head
  • Russian: уда́р (udár) — bump on the head
  • Spanish: chindono — bump on the head
  • Spanish: chindondo — bump on the head
  • Spanish: bollo — bump on the head
  • Spanish: chichón — bump on the head
  • Finnish: törmääminen — minor collision
  • French: choc — minor collision
  • French: heurt — minor collision
  • Italian: urto — minor collision
  • Finnish: pano — sexual intercourse
  • French: coït — sexual intercourse
  • Italian: scopata — sexual intercourse
  • Italian: chiavata — sexual intercourse
  • Russian: совокупле́ние (sovokuplénije) — sexual intercourse
  • Russian: тра́ханье (tráxanʹje) — sexual intercourse
  • Spanish: pájara — a condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion
  • Finnish: törmätä — to strike or collide
  • French: heurter — to strike or collide
  • German: bumsen — to strike or collide
  • German: ficken — to strike or collide
  • Italian: battere — to strike or collide
  • Italian: scontrarsi — to strike or collide
  • Italian: sbattere — to strike or collide
  • Russian: ударя́ть (udarjátʹ) — to strike or collide
  • Russian: уда́рить (udáritʹ) — to strike or collide
  • Russian: тра́хать (tráxatʹ) — to strike or collide
  • Russian: тра́хнуть (tráxnutʹ) — to strike or collide
  • Russian: баба́хать (babáxatʹ) — to strike or collide
  • Russian: баба́хнуть (babáxnutʹ) — to strike or collide
  • Russian: ста́лкиваться (stálkivatʹsja) — to strike or collide
  • Russian: столкну́ться (stolknútʹsja) — to strike or collide
  • Chinese Mandarin: 幹 /干 (gàn) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Chinese Mandarin: 搞 (gǎo) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Czech: píchat — to have sexual intercourse
  • Czech: šoustat — to have sexual intercourse
  • Czech: šukat — to have sexual intercourse
  • Czech: souložit — to have sexual intercourse
  • Finnish: panna — to have sexual intercourse
  • Finnish: hässiä — to have sexual intercourse
  • Finnish: bylsiä — to have sexual intercourse
  • French: faire l'amour — to have sexual intercourse
  • Italian: scopare — to have sexual intercourse
  • Italian: trombare — to have sexual intercourse
  • Italian: sbattere — to have sexual intercourse
  • Japanese: エッチする (etchi suru) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Japanese: 犯す (okasu) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Japanese: ファックする (fakku suru) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Japanese: やる (yaru) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Portuguese: transar — to have sexual intercourse
  • Portuguese: coisar — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: тра́хать (tráxatʹ) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: тра́хнуть (tráxnutʹ) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: поиме́ть (poimétʹ) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: отыме́ть (otymétʹ) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: дрю́чить (drjúčitʹ) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: отдрю́чить (otdrjúčitʹ) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: тра́хаться (tráxatʹsja) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: тра́хнуться (tráxnutʹsja) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: потра́хаться (potráxatʹsja) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: дрю́читься (drjúčitʹsja) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Russian: отдрю́читься (otdrjúčitʹsja) — to have sexual intercourse
  • Spanish: quedar sin energía — to experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion
  • Spanish: quedarse sin energías — to experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion
  • Spanish: agotarse — to experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion
  • Spanish: fatigarse — to experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion
  • Spanish: experienciar una pájara — to experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion