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

1 make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: blare, beep, claxon, toot]

2 use the horn of a car [syn: claxon]

3 cry like a goose; "The geese were honking" [syn: cronk]

4 eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒŋk

Verb

1. In the context of "transitive|intransitive": To use a car horn.
2. To make a sound like a car horn.
3. To make the sound of a goose.

Translations

to use a car horn

• French: klaxonner
• Norwegian: tute
• Swedish: tuta

honk like a goose

• Norwegian: gakke
• Russian: гоготать (gogotát’)

Interjection

honk

1. sound a car horn makes.
2. sound a goose makes.

Translations

sound of a goose

• German: gack
• Norwegian: gakk, rapp
• Russian: га-га-га (ga-ga-ga)

Derived terms

• honking

Honk can refer to:

• A sound made by geese, brass instruments, or car horns.
• Honk!, a musical retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling.
• Honk (magazine), a comic strip publication from the 1980s.
• HONK!, an annual festival of activist marching bands held in Somerville, Massachusetts.
• HONK T1R4, a product that networks a group of car horns to play rhythms in a sequence.
• HONK (hyperosmotic non-ketotic) acidosis.
• Honk (band), a band from Southern California who recorded the soundtrack to Five Summer Stories.

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