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thunk

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Synonyms: think, chunk, trunk, hunk, thank, thonk, thnk, tunk, thun, shunk, thune

Antonyms: think, chunk, trunk, hunk, thank, thonk, thnk, tunk, thun, shunk, thune

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Verb

  1. past participle of think
    • Who would have thunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
    • A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk that the skunk stunk.

Interjection

  1. Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.

Verb

  1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
    • I was thunked on the head by his stick.

Noun

  1. A delayed computation.
  2. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  3. A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.

Verb

  1. To delay (a computation).
  2. To execute (code) by means of a thunk.

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