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tacky-bonk

· noun · brummie

A colliery spoil heap — the pit-waste mounds that scar the Black Country.

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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.”
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tacky-bonk In A Sentence

We used to slide down the tacky-bonk on tin trays as kids.

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