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Drunk vs Zonk - What's the difference?

drunk | zonk |

As nouns the difference between drunk and zonk

is that drunk is a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated while zonk is an unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal).

As verbs the difference between drunk and zonk

is that drunk is past participle of lang=en while zonk is to make (someone) sleepy or delirious.

As an adjective drunk

is in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

drunk

English

Adjective

(er)
  • In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
  • (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
  • Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
  • * Macaulay
  • drunk with recent prosperity
  • Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
  • I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

    Synonyms

    * (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see also

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tank

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
  • * 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
  • Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
  • A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
  • * 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:
  • Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
  • A drunken state.
  • * 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
  • Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

    Derived terms

    * cheap drunk * expensive drunk * good drunk

    Synonyms

    * (habitual drinker) alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Southern US) (drink)
  • English irregular past participles

    zonk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as ).
  • * 2003-10-1, Gregory Arthur Baer Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them) , Penguin, ISBN 1592400337, page 237
  • There will always be two doors that hold zonks', so regardless of whether you initially chose the grand prize or a '''zonk''', Monty will always be able to show you a ' zonk not chosen.
  • * 2003-12-30, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel , HarperCollins, ISBN 0380817195, page 204:
  • A live, mane-embellished, SAG-card-carrying lion, I should point out, who was likely being staged for a few minutes off to the side before he would be used as a freaking “Zonk !” on a freaking game show, for crying out loud.
  • * 2004, Jay Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth , University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226517055, page 124
  • A zonk' was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a ' zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize.
  • * 2004, Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Effective reading strategies: teaching children who find reading difficult , Pearson/Prentice Hall, ISBN 0131121863, page 150
  • I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says "Zonk ."
  • * 2006-05-09, Bruce Frey, Statistics hacks , O'Reilly Media, ISBN 0596101643, page 208:
  • Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains.
  • * 2008, Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470049456, page 53:
  • Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk , ...
  • * 2009, Victor Shoup, A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521516447, page 217:
  • Behind two doors is a “zonk ,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat, ...
  • (slang) A feeling of a drug taking hold.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (someone) sleepy or delirious.
  • To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.
  • After two hours of studying, I zonked out.

    Derived terms

    * zonk out * zonked