HONK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honk mean? 

• HONK (noun)
  The noun HONK has 1 sense:

1. the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)

  Familiarity information: HONK used as a noun is very rare.

• HONK (verb)
  The verb HONK has 4 senses:

1. make a loud noise

2. use the horn of a car

3. cry like a goose

4. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

  Familiarity information: HONK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("honk" is a kind of...):

cry (the characteristic utterance of an animal)

Derivation:

honk (cry like a goose)

• HONK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they honk    ... he / she / it honks   
Past simple: honked   
Past participle: honked   
-ing form: honking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a loud noise

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

beep; blare; claxon; honk; toot

Context example:

The horns of the taxis blared

Hypernyms (to "honk" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "honk"):

tootle (play (a musical instrument) casually)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

honker (a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Use the horn of a car

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

claxon; honk

Hypernyms (to "honk" is one way to...):

make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

honker (a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cry like a goose

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cronk; honk

Context example:

The geese were honking

Hypernyms (to "honk" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

honk (the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this))

honker (common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

barf; be sick; cast; cat; chuck; disgorge; honk; puke; purge; regorge; regurgitate; retch; sick; spew; spue; throw up; upchuck; vomit; vomit up

Context example:

The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night

Hypernyms (to "honk" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)