clunk

Word family

clunk /klʌŋk/ noun [countableC]

SOUNDa loud sound made when two solid objects hit each other 〔物体相撞发出的〕啷声，碰撞声

the clunk of the car door being shut

汽车门关上时发出的碰撞声

—clunk verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]

Examples from the Corpus

clunk• Eight digits, a six-second delay, and a clunk, then the hard burr of the country telephone.• 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.• I shove aside a pile of dehydrated red and black typewriter ribbons and set my machine down with a clunk.• There was the rattle and heavy clunk of a fridge door being opened and closed.• The bottle fell inside with a hollow clunk.• This time there was one ominous clunk.• He hears the two-part clunk of the receiver being set down.

Origin clunk

(1700-1800) From the sound

Chinese

Corpus

BNC: 36706 COCA: 28362

clunk

Low sounds: clunk, drone, groan...