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Conk   /kɑŋk/   Listen
Conk

verb
1.
Come to a stop.  Synonym: stall.
2.
Hit, especially on the head.
3.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  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.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"  Antonym: be born.
4.
Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.  Synonyms: faint, pass out, swoon.
noun
1.
Informal term for the nose.



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"Conk" Quotes from Famous Books



... along and just about split the chump's conk just so's he'll stay out of your light, see?" He ...
— Alarm Clock • Everett B. Cole
... fam appeared [7] The snore her conk betrayed, [8] Told me, that Hodge's max had queered [9] ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... possible for me to stand by, an idle spectator of the destruction of a female who appeared to have no defender, whatever might be the nature of the offence alleged or committed. I therefore warded off the blow with my left arm, and with my right gave him a well-planted blow on the conk,{3} which sent him piping into the kennel. In a moment I was surrounded and charged with a violent assault upon the charley,{4} and interfering with the guardians of the night in the execution of their duty. A complete diversion took place from the original object of ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... first-rate—no other can come up to them in using the materials and implements they are possessed of. By the accustomed sun-mark on the floor, which Sybel prefers to the clock, she sees 'tis now the hungry hour of noon, and blows the horn for Lank to come to dinner. This horn is a conk shell, bored at one end, and its sound is heard at a great distance. At the hours of meal-time it may be heard from house to house, and, ringing through the echoing woods from distant settlements, telling us, amid their loneliness, of happy meetings at ...
— Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick • Mrs. F. Beavan
... some kid thet he kep' a-pickin' at till good natur' fergot ter be a vartue, an' pasted him several between the eyes, he may not look so purty but he will know two or three things so blamed well he'll never fergit 'em ontell Gabriel blows his conk ...
— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller


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