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Onomatopoeic.

bong (plural bongs)

  1. (slang) The clang of a large bell.
    The sound of a bong echoed across the courtyard, signaling the hour.
    • 1989, Malcolm Lynch, The kid from Angel Meadow, page 152:
      An argument began as to whether the trap door would open on the first bong of eight or the eighth bong of eight. A man said he'd been told on the wireless that it was the first bong of Big Ben in London which told the time, […]
  2. (slang) Doorbell chimes. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (Internet slang, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong

bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)

  1. (slang) To pull a bell.
  2. (slang) To ring a doorbell.
  3. Make a bell-like sound
    The church bell began to bong at noon, marking the start of the ceremony.
    He accidentally hit the old pot, making it bong loudly against the table.

Smoking bong (sense 1).

Beer bong (sense 3).

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”). First use in English appears c. 1971 in the publication Marijuana Review.

bong (plural bongs)

  1. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
    Hypernyms: water pipe < pipe, paraphernalia
    Hyponyms: bucket bong, moof
    Coordinate terms: hookah; hash pipe, hashpipe
  2. An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
    • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 115:
      Harry had a bong after his swim and then sprawled on the couch watching music videos.
  3. A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
    Synonym: beer bong

device for rapidly consuming beer

bong (third-person singular simple present bongs, present participle bonging, simple past and past participle bonged)

  1. (transitive, informal) To smoke a bong.

bong (plural bongs)

  1. A very wide piton.

bong (plural bongs)

  1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).

bong (plural bongs)

  1. (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

bong (plural boong)

  1. Nighttime.
  2. Dark.
  3. A day of 24 hours.

From Hokkien 墓 (bōng, “grave; tomb”). Compare Khmer ម៉ុង (mong).

bong

  1. Chinese graveyard
    Synonym: kuburan cina
  2. (Aceh) familial graveyard

From Javanese ꦧꦺꦴꦁ (bong, “person other than a doctor who performs a circumcision”). Doublet of orang and wong.

bong

  1. traditional circumcisor (person who carries out circumcision)
    Synonym: dukun sunat

Borrowed from Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng, “a marijuana pipe”).

bong

  1. vessel for smoking drug

bong

  1. romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦁ

From Portuguese bom

bong

  1. good; well

Borrowed from English bong.

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

  1. a bong for smoking

Borrowed from French bon (“good”). Cognate with Swedish bong (“betting slip”).

bong m (definite singular bongen, indefinite plural bongar, definite plural bongane)

  1. a receipt from a totalizator
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bong

  1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

Compare Dutch bang.

bong

  1. fearful; afraid

Borrowed from French bon (“voucher, ticket, coupon”). First attested in the 1930s.[1]

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk bong (“totalizator receipt”).

bong c

  1. (restaurant) A kitchen ticket, an order ticket; a slip where waiting staff notes guests' orders, used by the kitchen or bar to prepare items, and to totaling the check.
  2. (gambling) A betting slip, a betting ticket; a slip on which a wager is recorded.
    Synonyms: insatskvitto, spelkvitto, spelkupong, talong, vadkvitto
  1. ^ “bong”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

bong • (蓬)

  1. to be peeled off, to be flaked off

bong

  1. thigh
  2. box

bong

  1. to help