Definitions
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- noun slang Term used, primarily by US immigration officials in informal settings, to describe an illegal immigrant of any country.
- noun slang An item of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale
Etymologies
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Examples
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My God! I don't think I have ever seen "tonk" spelled out.
Veiled Charges Of Racism Fly In Race For ... Republican National Committee Chair? 2009
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Navy, singing six nights a week in a honky-tonk band, selling cars, building houses, managing a coffee house, and half a dozen other jobs.
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But if you'd rather stay warm, Billy Bob's is a couple of blocks over and calls itself the world's biggest honky tonk.
Dallas Preps For Influx Of Visitors For February Super Bowl AP 2011
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But if you'd rather stay warm, Billy Bob's is a couple of blocks over and calls itself the world's biggest honky tonk.
Dallas Preps For Influx Of Visitors For February Super Bowl AP 2011
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Lots of people have made their careers on this sort of tonk, how do you make them give it up in the face of (shock horror) having to do real policework ..?
What A Bunch Of Plonkers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Navy, singing six nights a week in a honky-tonk band, selling cars, building houses, managing a coffee house, and half a dozen other jobs.
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So when he takes honky-tonk style, for example, he pushes its virtuosity to the highest degree.
Denk and Ives, Partners in Pianism Stuart Isacoff 2010
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Navy, singing six nights a week in a honky-tonk band, selling cars, building houses, managing a coffee house, and half a dozen other jobs.
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Navy, singing six nights a week in a honky-tonk band, selling cars, building houses, managing a coffee house, and half a dozen other jobs.
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The gorgeous honky-tonk ballad would have made Patsy Cline proud, but it has never cracked the Hot 100 on Skid Row.
Music where they live: Singer Mary McBride's unconventional tour J. Freedom duLac 2011
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As many reports allege— a notion Budd agrees with— the word “tonk” may symbolize “the sound a flashlight makes” when agents hit migrants on the head.
Reports Find U.S. Border Patrol’s Alleged Rampant Use Of Migrant Slur: ‘They Still Use It’ Camila Barbeito 2024
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According to HuffPost’s report, emails and text messages show Border Patrol agents using the word “tonk” as a migrant slur.
Reports Find U.S. Border Patrol’s Alleged Rampant Use Of Migrant Slur: ‘They Still Use It’ Camila Barbeito 2024
yarb commented on the word tonk
'Mist hung over the hills beyond the town, and from a slope rising from the other side of the road came the gentle tonk of a cowbell.'
- Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Gresham
July 1, 2012