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(klʌŋk)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense, plural clunks, present participle clunking, past tense, past participle clunked
1. countable noun [usually singular]
A clunk is a sound made by a heavy object hitting something hard.
Something fell to the floor with a clunk.
2. verb
If a heavy object clunks on or against something, it hits it and makes a dull sound.
His feet clunked on the wooden steps. [VERB preposition]
...a slight clunking noise. [VERB-ing]

clunk in British English

(klʌŋk)
noun
1. 
a blow or the sound of a blow
2. 
a dull metallic sound
3. 
a dull or stupid person
4. mainly Scottish
a. 
the gurgling sound of a liquid
b. 
the sound of a cork being removed from a bottle
verb
5. 
to make or cause to make such a sound
Word origin
C19: of imitative origin

clunk in American English

(klʌŋk)
noun
1. 
a dull, heavy, hollow sound
2.  Informal
a heavy blow
3.  Slang
a dull or stupid person
verb intransitive, verb transitive
4. 
to move or strike with a clunk or clunks
Word origin
echoic

Examples of 'clunk' in a sentence
clunk

Was he nervous of the big clunking fist?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Facts are deployed with the famous clunking fist.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The great clunking fist has struck again, or almost.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He heard a'weird clunking noise - as if a bird had flown straight into the propeller.
The Sun (2014)
He added: 'The car was making a really clunking noise as it was going over bumps.
The Sun (2013)
Why wasn't he there, clunking fist gripping a frying pan?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The answer, surprisingly, is a great clunking fist to his jaw.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It was not so much the hand of history as the great clunking fist that hit Westminster at 5pm yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
For that reason, I always make sure my car is locked by listening for the quite loud clunking noise.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
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