Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The head.
- n. A blow, especially on the head.
- n. Chiefly British The human nose.
- transitive v. To hit, especially on the head.
- intransitive v. To stop functioning; fail: The engine conked out on the final lap.
- intransitive v. To fall asleep, especially suddenly or heavily: conked out on the couch watching television.
- intransitive v. To pass out; faint.
- intransitive v. To die.
- n. A hard, shelflike, spore-bearing structure of certain wood-decaying fungi, found on stumps, logs, or trees.
- n. A hairstyle in which the hair is straightened, usually by chemical means. Also called process1.
- transitive v. To straighten (tightly curled hair) usually by chemical means.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a Bracket fungus (A.K.A. Shelf fungus), i.e., a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
- n. A nose, especially a large one.
- n. Alternative spelling of conch.
- v. To hit, especially on the head.
- v. To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. the head.
- n. a blow to the head.
- transitive v. to hit on the head.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A confidential chat.
- n. The head.
- n. The nose.
- n. 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- v. come to a stop
- n. informal term for the nose
- v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- v. hit, especially on the head
Etymologies
Examples
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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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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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Cabin pressure and high altitude typically cause the taste buds to conk out a mixed blessing, some might say, which means Heston Blumenthal has his work cut out preparing the kind of gourmet dishes for British Airways that airline passengers will actually appreciate.
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And so, Michael's sad, desperate journey to the land of de-nubification would begin — first with the throwback conk/curls and as time would go by, the more extreme, outré modifications to skin, sinew and bone.
sakhalinskii commented on the word conk
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August 8, 2008