Meaning & use
Thunk
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A nonstandard or humorous past tense and past participle of "think."
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"I never would have thunk it," he joked after winning the raffle.
Who'd have thunk that such a small change could cause so much trouble?
A note on using this word
In computer science, "thunk" is also a technical noun for a small piece of code that delays a computation until its result is needed.
Another way to use it
2. noun
In computer programming, a subroutine created to perform a delayed computation or to link between two pieces of code.
The compiler generates a thunk to handle the deferred function call.
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