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tacky-bonk
What does tacky-bonk mean?
A pit mound — the spoil heap of waste rock and clay tipped out of a coal mine. 'Tocky' is the rocky muck from the shaft, 'bonk' is a bank. Stick them together and you get the lumpy black hills that still finger the Black Country landscape long after the pits closed.
"We used to slide down the tacky-bonk on tin trays as kids."
Frequently asked questions
What does tacky-bonk mean?
It's a Black Country word for a colliery spoil heap — one of the mounds of pit-waste left behind from coal mining.
How do you use tacky-bonk in a sentence?
"We used to sledge down the tacky-bonk behind the old pit when we were kids."
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