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# bong

«bong» in Mova's school dictionary: **A deep ringing sound, like a big bell or clock** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bong, bongs); verb (bong, bongs, bonged)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A deep ringing sound, like a big bell or clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#m1)

2) (verb) To make that sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#m2)

3) (slang) A water pipe used to smoke drugs such as cannabis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories: the bongs of Big Ben at midnight; the clock went bong. In safety and health lessons the slang sense may come up as drug equipment, which is dangerous and illegal for children. Phrases: the bongs of Big Ben.

### examples

- The clock went bong twelve times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#x1)
- We heard the bongs of Big Ben on the radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#x2)
- The doorbell bonged loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#x3)
- The big bell bonged across the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#x4)
- Count the bongs to know the hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#x5)
- The police found a bong, a pipe for smoking drugs. (slang) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/#x6)

### note

As a sound word it is imitative, like ding, dong, ring. The drug sense is slang; drugs harm health and are against the law. In maths problems: a clock that bongs once per hour bongs 3 times at 3 o'clock.

### In the corpora

- [Picture the church clock striking 6: bong, gap, bong, gap...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/3/)
- [There are 6 bongs but only 5 gaps, and the gaps are what take the time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/192-olympiad-time-and-calendar-puzzles/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bong» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bong/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.