Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
honk . - noun A sound that
honks .
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Examples
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The procession passes through an underpass and just as there is great pleasure in honking the car horn in tunnels these many people send up an enormous cheer, echoing off the walls.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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The constant honking is enough to drive a couple that has always lived in quiet neighborhoods insane.
A quick post from Will... Will 2008
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The constant honking is enough to drive a couple that has always lived in quiet neighborhoods insane.
Archive 2008-11-01 Will 2008
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Once it scared the crap out of me (road rage & all ) but it turns out the guy doing the honking was a serious Lamont supporter and shouting he was voting Lamont (on the highway.)
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I heard some goose-honking, which isn't unusual, except it was at my front door, which does not face the pond.
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Sims recalls honking at one man who was shaving, his face covered with foam.
ajc.com - News ahart@ajc.com 2010
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Sims recalls honking at one man who was shaving, his face covered with foam.
ajc.com - News ahart@ajc.com 2010
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Their honking was the only thing I could hear except for the wind in the trees.
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Some Filipinos make token protests, such as honking their horns when motorcades of political poobahs tailed by rifle-toting bodyguards jam up Manila's traffic.
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It was the kind of honking you hear from team cars as they try to make their way through the peloton to their riders in the break, and it was coming from a large van of the sort upon which you don't go knocking if you see it rocking.
Archive 2008-07-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008
uselessness commented on the word honking
Follows the word big to add emphasis to the object's bigness. "Arnold drives one big honking SUV."
July 24, 2007
reesetee commented on the word honking
Ah, yes. A word I'm prone to using often when referring to SUVs. ;-)
July 24, 2007