bong

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɒŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Onomatopoeic.

bong (plural bongs)

1. The clang of a large bell.
2. Doorbell chimes. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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

1. To pull a bell.
2. To ring a doorbell.

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

bong (plural bongs)

1. A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot.
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.

• (vessel for smoking): bucket bong, water pipe
• (device for consuming beer): beer bong

• hookah
• hubbly bubbly
• narghile
• pipe
• shisha

bong (plural bongs)

1. A very wide piton.

bong (plural bongs)

1. Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)

• boong
• bung

bong (plural bongs)

1. (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.

bong (plural boong)

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

From Min Nan 墓 (bōng).

• IPA^(key): /boŋ/
• Hyphenation: bong

bong

1. Chinese graveyard

From Javanese bong.

• IPA^(key): /boŋ/
• Hyphenation: bong

bong

1. traditional circumcising person.

From Thai บ้อง (bɔ̂ng).

• IPA^(key): /boŋ/
• Hyphenation: bong

bong

1. vessel for smoking drug.

• “bong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

bong

1. drainage ditch surrounding taro patch

Compare Dutch bang.

bong

1. fearful; afraid

• ääng

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓawŋ͡m˧˧]

bong

1. to be peeled off, to be flaked off