thunk.

1. A flat, hollow sound, typically produced when one object strikes another.

2. To strike or move in a way that produces a flat, hollow sound.

3. A stored representation of a computation whose value is evaluated only when needed.

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Words that belong together

• a hollow thunk
• land with a thunk
• a thunk against the wall

On the page

The box landed against the panel with a hollow thunk.

A thunk from the empty stairwell made her stop.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / image-rich description. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Sound noun or computing noun: singular thunk; plural thunks. Sound verb thunk, thunks, thunked, thunked, thunking. Dialectal past of think is not this sound verb. Commonness: moderately common (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Positive full lexical excerpt: dialectal past/participle of think; independent flat hollow sound noun and regular sound verb thunked/thunking/thunks. Dialectal inflection not treated as a new independent canonical word. Individually checked for a distinct image, texture, sound, taste, smell, visual-perception or artistic function. Definitions/examples are original; sensory strength is not assumed to imply emotion. Writing functions: flat hollow impacts, deferred computations. Third-person singular: thunks.