Meaning of Tonk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Tonkinese cat.
2. A district of Rajasthan, India.
3. An illegal immigrant of any country.
   US, derogatory, slang
4. An item or items of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale.
   countable, slang, uncountable
5. A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
   uncountable
6. A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
7. A tank.
   slang
8. A resounding strike of the ball; a powerful hit of the ball with the bat.
   colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

“1990: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee - An agent, Larry Moy, when asked to define the derivation of the term “tonk,” replied: “...it's the sound of flashlight hitting somebody's head, tonk". [This "derivation" is incorrect - see Etymology]”

“1998: Cirenio Rodriguez & Enrique T Trueba, Leadership, education and political action, in Ethnic Identity and Power: Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society - "Catch as many tonks as you guys can. Safely. An alien is not worth busting a leg."”

“2005: EMF (poster on The QandO Blog in response to Illegal immigration made easy, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060528001651/http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=789 on 27 May 2006) - The pissed off Arizona land owner who snipes the tonks with a high powered rifle.”

“How much tonk have we got to shift?”

“It has big deep-down chairs and a card table by the window covered with jade, dracena and doctor plants until they want to have card games or play tonk between themselves.”

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