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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clunk
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eight digits, a six-second delay, and a clunk, then the hard burr of the country telephone.
▪ He hears the two-part clunk of the receiver being set down.
▪ I shove aside a pile of dehydrated red and black typewriter ribbons and set my machine down with a clunk.
▪ If I accelerate hard then release the throttle suddenly, the transmission makes a clunk.
▪ She was just about to rattle the huge gates in fury when there was a clunk and the gates whirred open.
▪ The bottle fell inside with a hollow clunk.
▪ There was the rattle and heavy clunk of a fridge door being opened and closed.
▪ This time there was one ominous clunk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clunk

1796, "to make the sound of a cork being pulled from a bottle;" imitative. This was the main sense through most of 19c. Meaning "to hit, strike" is attested from 1940s. Related: Clunked; clunking.

Wiktionary
clunk

n. a dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact vb. to make such a sound

WordNet
clunk
  1. n. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) [syn: thump, thumping, clump, thud]

  2. v. make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground [syn: clop, clump, plunk]

Wikipedia
Clunk

Clunk may refer to:

  • Clunk (EP), 1992 EP by Australian alternative rock group Frente!
  • Josiah Clunk, a fictional detective in works of H. C. Bailey
Clunk (EP)

Clunk is the second Extended Play by Australian alternative rock group Frente!. It was released in March 1992. It includes the ARIA Award winning track " Ordinary Angels" which won 'Breakthrough Artist - single' at ARIA Music Awards of 1993.

Usage examples of "clunk".

Now his employee happens along and a woman is murdered and Clunk takes good care not to appear.

Beltar swept into the lower room of the White tower, even before the clunk of the door against the chaos-whitened stone had finished echoing down the corridor.

Justen concentrated on keeping the Demon headed straight and out of the deeper ruts until he heard the clunk of the firebox door.

Harry could hear the clunk of his trunk on the stairs, and knew that the sounds had scared Dudley out of the kitchen.

Moody quietly, limping forward a few steps, the dull clunk of his wooden leg echoing around the hall.

Harry was left staring down at Moody, who placed his staff on the bottommost stair and started to climb laboriously toward him, a dull clunk on every other step.

Still he remained, listening, until he heard the distant clunk of her bedchamber latch falling.

Sweaty oil added a high polish to their bodies that made their red skin look like ripe McIntosh apples, and the gnashing of teeth could be heard through the metal clunk and thump of heaving and hefting.

Its plastic landed on the other plastic with a clunk and the sound of a lot of crinkling while we pushed and shoved it flush into a corner.

A loud clunk sounded from the roof, and the long-range displays went to static.

Trumbill heard a clunk, and realized that she had put the phone down on the table by the front door.

Crane heard the truck door clunk, and when Mavranos came back in, he was carrying a dripping Coors can.

The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together.

A loud series of clunks and bangs signaled that the hard-dock latches were withdrawn.

As the sails unfurled, he heard from forward the soft clunk of an axe blow as the anchor cable was severed.