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/hɑŋk/ /hɔŋk/ Listen

noun

Honk n. (Zool.) The cry of a wild goose.

Honk n.

To make a sound like the honk of a goose.

Specifically: To sound the horn on an automobile or other motor vehicle.

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Etymology of 'Honk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Honk" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mrs. Davis' womanly act, else blocked the yawning hole in his prognathic head with a flat-car load of compost. If Mrs. Davis is permitted to petition the King of Kings to have mercy on the miserable journalistic piano-pounder for Gotham's high-toned honk-a-tonks, certainly she may with propriety appeal to the substitute sovereign of a nation of bankrupt ...

— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... time to stop here longer," she sighed, putting down her basket and patting a great beech tree. "Thank goodness the Bucks were too lazy to cut you down and the Knights too slow." The honk of an automobile horn startled her. A seven-seated passenger car was coming down the road and in the distance could ...

— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson

... the chauffeur to hasten, the insistent honk! honk! of the cab adds its raucous note to the turmoil. They have dashed through one group;—they are dashing through another;—naught can withstand an on-rushing automobile. She catches glimpses of raised arms threatening retaliation; ...

— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green

... strains on a mandolin for an hour, and she won't even look out of the window, but just one honk of a horn and—out ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... and Mr. Bear followed me out into the garden. The land lay still and cold under millions of stars. High above my chimney came faintly the "Honk, honk," of a flock ...

— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith

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