zonk

Etymology
First attested around 1950. origin, likely imitative, of echoic origin.

Noun

 * 1)  An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal).
 * 2) * 2003-10-1, Gregory Arthur Baer Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them), Penguin, ISBN 1592400337, page 237
 * There will always be two doors that hold zonks, so regardless of whether you initially chose the grand prize or a zonk, Monty will always be able to show you a zonk not chosen.
 * 1) * 2003-12-30, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel, HarperCollins, ISBN 0380817195, page 204:
 * A live, mane-embellished, SAG-card-carrying lion, I should point out, who was likely being staged for a few minutes off to the side before he would be used as a freaking “Zonk!” on a freaking game show, for crying out loud.
 * 1) * 2004, Jay Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226517055, page 124
 * A zonk was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize.
 * 1) * 2004, Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Effective reading strategies: teaching children who find reading difficult, Pearson/Prentice Hall, ISBN 0131121863, page 150
 * I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says "Zonk."
 * 1) * 2006-05-09, Bruce Frey, Statistics hacks, O'Reilly Media, ISBN 0596101643, page 208:
 * Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains.
 * 1) * 2008, Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470049456, page 53:
 * Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk,
 * 1) * 2009, Victor Shoup, A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521516447, page 217:
 * Behind two doors is a “zonk,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat,
 * 1)  The feeling of a drug taking hold.
 * 2)  A cigarette hand-rolled from tobacco and cannabis.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: черен Петър
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: schijtkaart
 * German: Zonk,, , , Schwarzer Peter
 * Hungarian:
 * Swedish: svarte petter

Verb

 * 1)  To hit hard.
 * 2)  To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor.
 * 3)  To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.
 * After two hours of studying, I zonked out.

Translations

 * German: schläfrig machen, müde machen


 * German: müde werden,, schläfrig werden, schlapp werden
 * Russian:

Etymology
From the name of the mascot in the form of a cat in the bag, which served as a worthless prize in ', the Polish version of the game show '.

Noun

 * 1)  bummer