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thunk
To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
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verb
To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
“I was thunked on the head by his stick.”
interjection
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.
noun
(functional programming) A delayed computation.
In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
A mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons, such as from 16-bit addresses to 32-bit to allow a 16-bit program to run on a 32-bit operating system.
verb
(functional programming) To delay (a computation).
To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another.
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I was thunked on the head by his stick.