gonk

gonk (plural gonks)

1. A small furry toy like an ersatz teddy bear, popularized in wartime when production of real teddies stops.
2. A stupid, ignorant, and/or boorish person.
3. (New Zealand, military, slang) A sleep; a nap.

   I'm going off to have a gonk.

4. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.

• (stupid person): see Thesaurus:dork / Thesaurus:idiot
• (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

• “gonk” in Eric Partridge; Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2007, →ISBN.

gonk (third-person singular simple present gonks, present participle gonking, simple past and past participle gonked)

1. (Britain, slang, with "out") To sleep.

   He gonked out on the bed.

2. (US, slang) To lie; to tell an untruth

   You're gonking me!

• “gonk” in Eric Partridge; Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2007, →ISBN.

• Kong, kong