conkers

/ (ˈkɒŋkəz) /


noun
  1. (functioning as singular) British a game in which a player swings a horse chestnut (conker), threaded onto a string, against that of another player to try to break it

Origin of conkers

1
C19: from dialect conker snail shell, originally used in the game

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