"If he told you, you'd zonk out again," Psyche said.

I'll get a motel there, zonk out for six hours, and try to reach Seattle by tomorrow evening.

"To zonk you out the minute you became functional again.

You know how you zonk out after a few glasses of wine."

I rather you'd stay here than try to get you moved back to the motel before you zonk out."

'I thought that would really zonk him,' says Charles.

"Why doesn't it zonk out your mind, too?"

It would zonk out their feeble minds.

So they zonk out.

I mean, doesn't it zonk you out?"

"I take catnaps of 30 or 40 minutes at a time, and then every fifth day or so, I zonk out for three or four hours."

BANKS Zonk watching screen from the whirlbath in a hotel suite.

Yesterday, she'd pulled an all-nighter and, if she didn't watch out, she'd zonk out, there and then.

And when you go to bed that night, the last thing you see before you zonk out are those eyes, and the last thing on your face is a smile.

Although Lori the American college teacher wouldn't have resisted, Bimi of the People knew that it wouldn't do to just zonk out without checking the lay of the land.

A New Jersey psychologist teaches a teenager with cerebral palsy how to zonk out with self-hypnosis, which not only seems to help with pain but must be a great party trick as well.

Or as Peter Beyers, an associate professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, put it: "Why do we zonk right after Thanksgiving dinner at Grandma's house?"