Date:  Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:59:02 -0600

From:  "Kathleen M. O'Neill" <koneil1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UIC.EDU>

Subject: Re: two questions: boink and fish shanty



I checked the Web, and found this site:

http://www.ufsia.ac.be/~skimo/jargon/boink.html



which contained the following entry:

boink



/boynk/ [Usenet: variously ascribed to the TV series "Cheers"

"Moonlighting", and "Soap"] 1. To have sex with; compare bounce, sense 3.

(This is mainstream slang.) In Commonwealth hackish the variant `bonk' is

more common. 2. After the original Peter Korn `Boinkon' Usenet parties, used

for almost any net social gathering, e.g., Miniboink, a small boink held by

Nancy Gillett in 1988; Minniboink, a Boinkcon in Minnesota in 1989;

Humpdayboinks, Wednesday get-togethers held in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Compare [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]-party. 3. Var of `bonk'; see bonk/oif.



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