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Bok or BOK may refer to:

• BOK (gene), full name BCL2-related ovarian killer
• Bok (lunar crater)
• 1983 Bok, asteroid
• BOK Center, an arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• BOK Financial Corporation, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma

• Bank of Oklahoma, a subsidiary

• Bok Prize, in full Derek Bok Public Service Prize, at Harvard University, USA
• Bok Telescope, Arizona, USA
• Bok Tower Gardens, Florida, USA
• Bok, an animated gargoyle from the Doctor Who serial The Dæmons
• Bok is a Dutch/Afrikaans word for an antelope
• South Africa national rugby union team, known as the Boks or the Springboks
• The Brand New Monty Python Bok, a book by Monty Python
• Body of Knowledge
• Bank of Korea, the S. Korean central bank
• Brookings Airport in Brookings, Oregon, IATA code BOK

People named Bok

Bok or Bök is a surname, and may refer to:

• Bart Bok, astronomer
• Chip Bok, cartoonist
• Christian Bök
• Derek Bok, American lawyer and president of Harvard University
• Edward W. Bok, publisher and author
• Francis Bok, Dinka tribesman and abolitionist
• Gideon Bok, American painter
• Gordon Bok
• Hannes Bok, pen name of Wayne Woodard
• Hilary Bok, author and professor of philosophy. Daughter of Derek and Sissela
• Sissela Bok, philosopher and ethicist
• Bok Geo-il, South Korean novelist

• In the computer game series Avernum, Bok is a title given to the leaders of the Vahnatai race.

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans: bok

Adjective

bok

1. (South African, slang) keen or willing.
   • "Do you want to go to the movies?" "ja I'm bok"

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Interjection

bok

1. The clucking sound of a chicken.
   • 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices

     And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.

   • 2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory

     So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

Anagrams

• Anagrams of bko
• KBO
• kob

Afrikaans

Noun

bok

1. A goat
2. An antelope or buck
3. (slang) also bokkie My lover.
4. A vaulting-horse
5. a blunder

Adjective

bok

1. keen or willing

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun

bok m.

1. A side.
2. A flank.
3. (anatomy) A hip.

Declension

Related terms

• boční
• bokovka
• odbočit
• vybočit
• zabočit
• vbok

Dutch

Noun

bok m. (plural: bokken, diminutive: bokje)

1. male goat
2. (gymnastics) horse

Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse bók.

Pronunciation

•  Audio^{help, file}

Noun

bok c. (definite singular boka/boken; indefinite plural bøker; definite plural bøkene)

1. book

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ

Noun

bok m.

1. side

Declension

See also

• na bok
• z boku

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun

bȍk m. (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)

1. side
2. flank

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

Noun

bok c.

1. book:
   1. collection of sheets of paper
   2. a major division of a published work

Derived terms

• bokförlag
• bokhandel
• bokmal
• bokmärke
• bokrygg
• bokpärm
• bokföra
• bokföring
• dagbok
• föra bok
• loggbok
• ordbok

Noun

bok c.

1. beech

Derived terms

• bokskog

Turkish

Noun

bok

1. shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)