gong UK /ɡɒŋ/US /ɡɔŋ/verb 5noun 7forms 3 verb5 •To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake! — 1903 •(UK, slang) To give an award or medal to. •To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).As she was gonged, host Daryl Somers swept rapidly across and salvaged an embarrassing situation by putting his arm around her and asking her whether she had children. — 1996 •To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. •To warn.The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop. noun7 •A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer. •A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.Weems picked up the hammer and hit the gong so hard that it spun right around on its hanger and fell off. — 1986 •(UK, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. •A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi. •An advanced practice that cultivates such energy. •(no longer used) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.The Iewe of Tewkysbury which fell into a Gonge vpon the Satyrday. — 1513 •(no longer used) The contents of an outhouse pit: shit. formsgonged · gonging · gongs
