I learned a new word today, thunk. At first, given the context, I thought it meant text (as in program code) hunk, but the Hacker's Dictionary suggests it's actually more a term for a closure.
For those not familiar with what a closure is, it's a "thunk" of encapsulated code created by the compiler which is dynamically generated and managed. Stealing the Wikipedia example:
Nested functions are probably the closest thing to a closure you can get with C (I've talked about nested functions and trampolines before). However, because the stack disappears it's not nearly as useful, I think the term for these is lexical closures, because it's basically a way to share some stack and restrict name-spaces.
Amusingly, the code using the term "thunk" was assembler, so my first search was for thunk gas (as in GNU Assembler). This of course lead to endless articles on the high price of gas — a non-renewable fossil fuel running out and capitalists realising inelastic demand can be used to line their pockets? Whoda' thunk it!