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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Gronk /gronk/ vt. [popularized by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.C." but the word apparently predates that] 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it. More severe than `to frob' (sense 2). 2. [TMRC] To cut, sever, smash, or similarly disable. 3. The sound made by many 3.5-inch diskette drives. In particular, the microfloppies on a Commodore Amiga go "grink, gronk". Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GRONK |
| Specialty definitions using "GRONK": gronked. (references) |
Expression using "GRONK": gronk out. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gronk | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "GRONK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | отключать (deactivate, hang up, hung up, open, shut down, toggle off, tripping, unplug). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-k-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: gor, kor, nog, nor. | |
-3 letters: go, no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-k-n-o-r" | |
+2 letters: broking, corking, forking, kerogen, rocking, rooking, troking, working. | |
+3 letters: brokings, brooking, croaking, crocking, crooking, drouking, frocking, kangaroo, kerogens, revoking, rockling, skioring, stroking, troaking, trocking, workings. | |
+4 letters: brokering, cockering, forsaking, kangaroos, knotgrass, knowinger, koshering, kurrajong, provoking, rebooking, reckoning, recocking, recooking, recorking, redocking, reevoking, relocking, relooking, resoaking, restoking, reworking, rocketing, rocklings, roughneck, skijoring, skiorings, springbok, uncorking, unworking. | |
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