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honk

verbnouninterjectionnounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//hɒŋk//
  • United States//hɑŋk//
  • United States//hɔŋk//

To use a car horn.

verb

  1. 1

    To use a car horn.

    They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk.

  2. 2

    To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.

  3. 3

    To make the vocal sound of a goose.

  4. 4

    slangTo vomit.

    WAYNE: Phil, what are you doing here? You're partied out, man. Again. GARTH: What if he honks in the car?

  5. 5

    slangTo have a bad smell.

  6. 6

    informalTo squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.

    She honked my titties.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

noun

  1. 1

    The harsh note produced by a typical car horn.

    The operator went out on to the platform with his handlamp and waved it in the traditional "wash-out" signal across the body. The engineer had been expecting this and responded at once with an acknowledging honk on the horn before bringing this huge, 16-car train gently to a stand at the platform.

  2. 2

    The cry of a goose or similar bird.

  3. 3

    slangA bad smell.

interjection

  1. 1

    Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of honkyClipping of honky.

Forms

plural
honks
past tense
honked
past participle
honked
present participle
honking
third person singular
honks
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).