Meaning

4 senses
  1. (slang)A heavy artillery bombardment.

  2. (slang, vulgar)A large or intense penile erection.

  3. (Internet, humorous, in the plural)A stock, especially a bullish one.

  4. (Internet, humorous)A profitable thing or scheme.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I don't know anything about stonks.

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  2. I don't care about stonks.

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  3. They want us to just be happy when the stonks go up and ignore what's happening around us.

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  4. Stonks only go up.

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  5. At one point in the pandemic, everyone just decided to sacrifice our sick and elderly to the stonks god.

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Origin

Uncertain. Possibly of imitative origin. Compare stomp. Deliberate misspelling of stock,

Uncertain. Possibly of imitative origin. Compare stomp.

Deliberate misspelling of stock, possibly under the influence of stink in reference to stocks relating to amateur or bad decisions, or financial loss. Compare stronk (“strong”), thonk (“think”).

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Forms

plural: stonks
Singularstonk
Pluralstonks

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmeme stock

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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