Meaning

3 senses

  1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.

    I was thunked on the head by his stick.

  2. (transitive)To delay (a computation).

  3. (transitive)To execute (code) by means of a thunk.

Origin

Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymolog

Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense of think (see Etymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument in ALGOL 60 could be predetermined at compile time (with a little compile-time “thought”).

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Forms

thunks, thunking, thunked, thunked
Base formthunk · to thunk
3rd person singularthunks
Present participlethunking
Past simplethunked
Past participlethunked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theythunk
he, she, itthunks

Past simpleLesson

all personsthunked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave thunked
he, she, ithas thunked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill thunk

Word family

1 related words
Derivedthunker

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
thunderingthunderousB1thunderstormA2ThursdayA1thusB1thwart
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