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conk
1[ kongk, kawngk ]
verb (used with object)
- to hit or strike on the head.
noun
- a blow on the head.
- the head.
- British. the nose.
conk
2[ kongk, kawngk ]
verb (used without object)
- to break or fail, as a machine or engine (often followed by out ):
The engine conked out halfway there.
- to slow down or stop; lose energy (often followed by out ).
- to go to sleep (usually followed by off or out ).
- to lose consciousness; faint (usually followed by out ).
- to die (usually followed by out ).
conk
3[ kongk, kawngk ]
noun
- the shelflike fruiting body of certain wood-decaying fungi; bracket fungus
conk
4[ kongk, kawngk ]
noun
- a method of chemically straightening the hair.
- a hairstyle in which the hair has been chemically straightened and sometimes set into waves.
verb (used with object)
- to straighten (kinky hair) by the use of chemicals:
to have one's hair conked.
conk
/ kɒŋk /
verb
- to strike (someone) a blow, esp on the head or nose
noun
- a punch or blow, esp on the head or nose
- the head or (esp Brit and NZ) the nose
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Example Sentences
Praying for sleep, perhaps, but the right to conk out near the table?
"I got the fog out of my conk to-day, Fanny," he said exultantly.
Just you take her over with you now, and I'll see Conk, and pay my bill, and come over as soon as I can with our luggage.
Then you come along and just about split the chump's conk just so's he'll stay out of your light, see?
There is a cancerous disease peculiar to the Pine-tree, to which lumbermen give the original name of "Conk" or "Konkus."
A carefully kept nuclear-battery motor didn't conk; the vehicle could almost fly without guidance.
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