BONG | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of bong in English bongnoun [ C ] uk /bɒŋ/ us /bɑːŋ/

bong noun [C] (NOISE)

Add to word list Add to word list a musical noise made especially by a large clock: I heard the bong of the grandfather clock. Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

• auditory feedback
• bang around phrasal verb
• bleep
• boop
• chuff
• clack
• clap
• clap along
• crashing
• patter
• peal
• rumble
• soughing
• spit
• susurration
• susurrus
• thrum
• thunk
• ting-a-ling
• whisper

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bong noun [C] (FOR DRUGS)

a a pipe used for smoking the drug marijuana, that uses water to make the smoke cooler Tobacco & smoking

• anti-cigarette
• anti-tobacco
• baccy
• big tobacco
• briar
• chain-smoker
• cheroot
• cigarette
• filter tip
• lighter
• nicotine patch
• non-tobacco
• puffer
• roll up! idiom
• roll-your-own
• second-hand smoke
• smokeless
• tobacco
• tobacconist
• weed

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Examples of bong

bong Blown-glass pipes and bongs are often intricately and colorfully designed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Furthermore, contrabass, piano, timbalitos, bongs, cencerro, and tumbadora are prominently featured. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It sells products such as band t-shirts, belts, wrist bands, jewellery, hair dyes and bongs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of bong?

Translations of bong

in Chinese (Traditional) 噹噹聲, （尤指）洪亮的鐘聲, （吸食大麻或其他毒品的）水煙斗… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 嘡嘡声, （尤指）洪亮的钟声, （吸食大麻或其他毒品的）水烟斗… See more in Spanish campanada… See more Need a translator?

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