Bonked

/bɒŋkt/ verb

Past tense of bonk; hit something or someone with a dull sound, or ran out of energy suddenly (especially in sports).

Bonk is onomatopoeia, imitating the sound of a dull impact, popularized in 20th-century English. The cycling meaning (to hit the wall) emerged in the 1980s from sports slang.

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