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Encyclopedia > Tonk
Look up Tonk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Tonk has several meanings. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

  • A tonk is a slang term for a bar; see Honky Tonk
  • Tonk is a city and former princely state in India; see Tonk, India
  • Tonk or Tank is also a city and district in Pakistan; see Tank, Pakistan
  • Tonk is a kind of Rummy [1].
  • In formal logic, tonk is an unnatural connective devised by Arthur Prior which is defined by the following two axioms:
    (1) [P→(P tonk Q)] and (2) [(P tonk Q)→Q]. See logical harmony.
  • Tonk is a term used by US immigration officials in informal settings to describe illegal aliens in the United States. It's origins are murky, but the most quoted theory is that the word is derived from the sound made by striking an illegal alien, or tonk on the head with a Maglite. The term, however, is confirmed by Border Inspectors to have existed before metal flashlights were in use.

(Urrea, Luis Alberto (2004). The Devil's Highway : A True Story. Little, Brown. p. 16. ISBN 0316746711. Amazon Books. Retrieved December 19, 2005.) Honky tonk was originally the name of a type of bar common throughout the southern United States, also Honkatonk or Honkey-tonk. ... A princely state is any state under the reign of a prince, both terms being taken in the broad sense. ... Tonk is a town in Rajasthan state, India. ... Tank, or Tonk, is a town in Pakistan, North-West Frontier Province; pop. ... Tonk, a card game, is a variety of rummy. ... Rummy is a generic term for card games of the same family as gin rummy. ... Arthur Norman Prior (1914 Masterton, New Zealand - 1969 Trondheim, Norway) was one of the foremost logicians of the twentieth century. ... Logical harmony, a name coined by Sir Michael Dummett, is a supposed constraint on the rules of inference that can be used in a given logical system. ... Maglite flashlight The popular 2xAA Mini Maglite in four variations Maglite is a brand of flashlight created by Mag Instrument, Inc. ...


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Tonk, India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (412 words)
Tonk was also the capital of the eponymous princely state of British India from 1817 to 1947.
The founder of the princely state of Tonk was Amir Khan, a Muslim freebooter of Afghan descent, and a notorious Pindari leader of the early 19th century.
A former minister of Tonk state, Sahibzada Obeidullah Khan, was deputed on political duty to Peshawar during the Tirah campaign of 1897.
Honky tonk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (669 words)
Honky tonks were rough establishments, mostly in the Deep South and southwest, that served alcoholic beverages to working class clientele.
The instrumental "Honky Tonk" by the Bill Doggett Combo with a sinuous saxophone line and driving, slow beat, was an early rock and roll hit.
In the mid to late 1950s, rockabilly, which melded honky tonk country to rock and roll, and the slick country music of the Nashville sound ended honky tonk's initial period of dominance.
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