Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard, shelflike, spore-bearing structure of certain wood-decaying fungi, found on stumps, logs, or trees.
- noun A hairstyle in which the hair is straightened, usually by chemical means.
- transitive verb To straighten (tightly curled hair) usually by chemical means.
- noun The head.
- noun A blow, especially on the head.
- noun Chiefly British The human nose.
- intransitive verb To hit, especially on the head.
- intransitive verb To stop functioning; fail.
- intransitive verb To fall asleep, especially suddenly or heavily.
- intransitive verb To pass out; faint.
- intransitive verb To die.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The head.
- noun The nose.
- noun In botany, a tough, leathery, or woody fungus, especially Trametes pini, whose fruiting bodies are bracket-like in form and occur upon the trunks of trees, producing a decay of the timber.
- noun A confidential chat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun slang the head.
- noun slang a blow to the head.
- transitive verb slang to hit on the head.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mycology The
shelf - orbracket -shaped fruiting body of a Bracket fungus (A.K.A. Shelf fungus), i.e., amushroom growing off atree trunk . - noun slang A
nose , especially a large one. - noun Alternative spelling of
conch . - verb slang To
hit , especially on thehead . - verb To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- verb come to a stop
- noun informal term for the nose
- verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- verb hit, especially on the head
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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It also refers to the "conk" style in which tightly curled hair is straightened using the chemical congolene (or should it be conkolene, according to Lionel Boyd) and then combed out.
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Paris blows hers out; Malcolm's early "conk" came courtesy of a painful lye job.
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Just as it seem like they can't shout any louder, we hear this big "conk," which sound like somebody get hit over the head with a board or somethin.
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It also refers to the "conk" style in which tightly curled hair is straightened using the chemical congolene (or should it be conkolene, according to Lionel Boyd) and then combed out.
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The Montague people in 1759 paid £1 10s. for their "conk," and also on the purchase year gave Joseph Root 20 shillings for blowing the new shell.
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We hear toward evening, high in air, the "conk" of the wild-geese.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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We hear toward evening, high in air, the "conk" of the wild-geese.
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Some would return with their hair "conk" a la James Brown and so much brilliantine you could smell it around the corner.
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With my wild zoot suit I wore the yellow knob-toe shoes, and I frizzled my hair up into a reddish bush of conk.
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Seriously, I have these fevered memories of the ring producing a giant green photon hammer to conk some dude on the melon.
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August 8, 2008