Usually means: Unsteady, odd, unreliable in function.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word wonky:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. wonky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wonky: Merriam-Webster
  3. wonky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wonky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wonky: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wonky: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wonky, wonky: Wordnik
  8. wonky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wonky: Wiktionary
  10. wonky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wonky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wonky: Dictionary.com
  13. Wonky (album), Wonky (disambiguation), Wonky (genre), Wonky (music), Wonky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. wonky: Rhymezone
  15. wonky: FreeDictionary.org
  16. wonky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. wonky: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wonky, wonky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wonky: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. W.O.N.K.Y, Wonky: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
adjective:  (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
adjective:  (informal, computing) Suffering from intermittent bugs.
adjective:  (informal) Generally incorrect.
noun:  (music) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
adjective:  Technically worded, in the style of jargon.

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