tonk

noun6

1. •
   A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.

   • It has big deep-down chairs and a card table by the window covered with jade, dracena and doctor plants until they want to have card games or play tonk between themselves. — 1992
2. •
   A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
3. •
   (informal) A resounding strike of the ball; a powerful hit of the ball with the bat.
4. •
   (slang) An item or items of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale.

   • How much tonk have we got to shift?
5. •
   (slang) A tank.
6. •
   (slang, offensive) An illegal immigrant of any country.

adjective1

1. •
   (UK, slang) Big, muscular, massive.

exclamation1

1. •
   Representing a sound produced by knocking on something hollow.

   • In one of those stampings into the yard he suddenly rushed at the tank and tapped it. Tonk, tonk, tonk, tab. One rung left. Only one rung; about a week's supply of water. — 1938

verb1

1. •
   (informal) To knock or strike (a ball) so that it flies through the air.

   • Then your dad would step up and spend 45 minutes repeatedly tonking the ball over the shower block […] — 2012

noun1

1. •
   A Tonkinese cat.