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conk::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| Type of | change state, turn |
| Has types | famish, drown, abort, fall, starve, stifle, predecease, succumb, asphyxiate, suffocate, yield, pip out, buy it |
| Verb group | fail, break, break down, conk out, die, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | nose, olfactory organ |
Examples of conk
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Verily, would I smite them thrice upon the conk for doing as they hath.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Smoking in an office meeting did not conk out completely until 1997.
From the cnn.com
Maybe someone could conk me on my head so I'd forget my obligations.
From the thestate.com
My abiding memory of the film is the quite stupendously massive conk of Jeffrey Jones as Emp.
From the guardian.co.uk
Alex heard her cry out, but was distracted by a conk to his head.
From the sacbee.com
Computers can conk out at any time, usually with dead hard drives.
From the usatoday.com
It takes a couple of summers to reach an impressive size, but it won't conk out like your hostas.
From the thestate.com
If it's going to conk out after 10 years, that puts a serious cost consideration on the vehicle.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The music would conk out occasionally with the Cisco router, and quite often with the Belkin and Apple.
From the online.wsj.com
- Informal term for the nose
- Stall: come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"
- Hit, especially on the head; "The stranger conked him and he fainted"
- Die: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
- Faint: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s to the 1960s. This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer (sometimes pure lye), so that the newly straightened hair could be styled in specific ways. ...
- Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, among many groups of the fungi in the phylum Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows. ...
- 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; A nose, especially a large one; Alternate spelling of conch; To hit, especially on the head; To chemically straighten tightly curled hair
- (Conks) a fungus found on trees, it will bracket in rows and resemble a mushroom.
