The term thunk was coined by him for this routine and the term has stuck.
The F-16 pilot hears a thunk behind his head and another air-to-air refueling operation is underway.
Pulling one coin after another from the air, he dropped them, thunk, thunk, thunk, into the bucket.
His lightning punches, in a style the ancients called Iron Fist, generate their own, thunk! Kung fu-movie sound effects.
The term thunk was coined for this routine and the term has stuck.
Moth tossed the baby onto the table with a thunk that startled the possum.
For each reference to a formal parameter in the body of the procedure, a call of this thunk appears.
But the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
And thunk the stump stunk.
