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In some senses, gronk is marked as derogatory, informal, slang, rare, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.
gronk
noun 4verb 3
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4ADJ.
above, above, occasional
VERB + GRONK
annoyed, elicited
GRONK + NOUN
amusement, ravens
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
An unintelligent and callous person.
verb
1
Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
They say a good detective always starts at the beginning, so I installed the program on my VGA PC's hard drive. As the computer gronked away, copying six 5¼-inch floppies, I wondered why, if bad detectives start at the end, […]
[…] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner.
2
To fail; to crash or go wrong.
Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked.
The other faction centered on […] what went on under the [model railway] layout. This was The System, […] and it was constantly being improved, revamped, perfected, and sometimes "gronked"—in club jargon, screwed up.
noun
1
The cry of a raven.
Silence rang in my ears, punctuated by the occasional gronk of the ravens, as they flitted about in the spruce trees.
Her call elicited an annoyed gronk above her head, and she looked up to see a raven lifting off the cliff face.
2
A mating call of the Albert's lyrebird.
We then viewed the audio spectrogram...and measured the timing of each gronk.
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They say a good detective always starts at the beginning, so I installed the program on my VGA PC's hard drive. As the computer gronked away, copying six 5¼-inch floppies, I wondered why, if bad detec
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[…] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner.
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The next startup event is the computer's attempt to read a disk in drive A. But, there is no disk in drive A, remember? You were supposed to remove any disk in this drive. So, you hear a lot of pathet
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Silence rang in my ears, punctuated by the occasional gronk of the ravens, as they flitted about in the spruce trees.
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Her call elicited an annoyed gronk above her head, and she looked up to see a raven lifting off the cliff face.
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My raven launched himself into the dark above with a gronk of amusement.
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