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Verb: honk  hóngk
  1. Use the horn of a car
    "The impatient driver honked at the slow traffic";
    - claxon, parp [informal], klaxon
     
  2. Make a strident noise
    "The horns of the taxis honked";
    - blare, beep, claxon, toot, parp [informal], klaxon
     
  3. Cry like a goose
    "The geese were honking";
    - cronk
     
  4. [Brit, informal] Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
    "After drinking too much, the students honked";
    - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick [Brit], disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], regurgitate, throw up [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], hurl [informal], keck [informal], vom [informal], boak [UK, dialect], boke [UK, dialect], chunder [Brit, informal], ralph [N. Amer, informal], bring up
Noun: honk  hóngk
  1. The cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)
    "The honk of geese filled the air as they migrated south"
     
  2. The sound from a car horn
    "A loud honk startled the pedestrians"

Derived forms: honked, honks, honking

Type of: cry, egest, eliminate, emit, excrete, go, let loose, let out, make noise, noise, pass, resound, sound, utter

Encyclopedia: Honk, the Moose