# zonk
## English
### Etymology

First attested around 1950. Unknown origin, likely imitative, of echoic origin.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /zɒŋk/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒŋk

### Noun

zonk (plural zonks)
* (slang) An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal).
** 2003-10-1, Gregory Arthur Baer Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them), Penguin, →ISBN, page 237
    There will always be two doors that hold zonks, so regardless of whether you initially chose the grand prize or a zonk, Monty will always be able to show you a zonk not chosen.
** 2003-12-30, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 204:
    A live, mane-embellished, SAG-card-carrying lion, I should point out, who was likely being staged for a few minutes off to the side before he would be used as a freaking “Zonk!” on a freaking game show, for crying out loud.
** 2004, Jay Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 124
    A zonk was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize.
** 2004, Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Effective reading strategies: teaching children who find reading difficult, Pearson/Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 150
    I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says "Zonk."
** 2006-05-09, Bruce Frey, Statistics hacks, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 208:
    Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains.
** 2008, Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 53:
    Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk, […]
** 2009, Victor Shoup, A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 217:
    Behind two doors is a “zonk,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat, […]
* (slang) The feeling of a drug taking hold.
* (slang) A cigarette hand-rolled from tobacco and cannabis.

#### Translations
### Verb

zonk (third-person singular simple present zonks, present participle zonking, simple past and past participle zonked)
* (transitive, slang) To hit hard [1950].
* (transitive, slang) To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor [1968].
* (intransitive, slang, usually followed by “out”) To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.
    After two hours of studying, I zonked out.

#### Derived terms

* zonk out
* zonked

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “zonk v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* Konz

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔŋk

### Verb

zonk
* singular past indicative of zinken

## Polish
### Etymology

From the name of the mascot in the form of a cat in the bag, which served as a worthless prize in Idź na całość, the Polish version of the game show Let's Make a Deal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɔŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔŋk
* Syllabification: zonk

### Noun

zonk m animal
* (colloquial) bummer (disappointment)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* zonk in Polish dictionaries at PWN