Conk

Quick meaning: Conk is a noun meaning The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.

Meaning

The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.

More Meanings

1. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
2. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
3. (colloquial, often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
4. (colloquial, often with out) To become unconscious.
5. Alternative spelling of conch.
6. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
7. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.

Example Sentences

I watch television when it's playing, but it done conked out. Everything is conked out.

Therefore, have two or more engines, so that there is still some power left if one engine conks.

The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them.

She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.

Word Forms

• conks
• conking
• conked

Synonyms for conk

Depending on context, synonyms include croak, faint, stall, choke, pass out, drop dead.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stall, croak, choke, pass out, faint, drop dead.

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