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- noun Plural form of
conker . - noun UK, uncountable A game for two players in which the participants each have a
horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string and take it in turns to strike their opponent'sconker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Emmeline might have been referring to conkers, or jacks, or marbles, for all I knew that morning.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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Emmeline might have been referring to conkers, or jacks, or marbles, for all I knew that morning.
The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Natalya Estemirova's heirs: The women who risk all to expose Chechnya's horrors Tour de France 2009: police hunt gunman as Oscar Freire and Julian Dean are shot at
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Natalya Estemirova's heirs: The women who risk all to expose Chechnya's horrors Tour de France 2009: police hunt gunman as Oscar Freire and Julian Dean are shot at
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Jamie Oliver's school dinners improve exam results, report finds School leavers want a prom just like on US television show The OC Soho House, New York: Hotel watch
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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Traditional games such as conkers and hopscotch 'dying out', study claims Jamie Oliver's school dinners improve exam results, report finds School leavers want a prom just like on US television show The OC Soho House, New York: Hotel watch
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
bilby commented on the word conkers
"Noun. Testicles. A conker (British) is the hard shiny nut of the horse chestnut tree."
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September 12, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word conkers
See also conks.
September 12, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word conkers
(n): A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string and take it in turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the's opponent's conker before their own is destroyed. --en.Wiktionary.org
January 16, 2009