Verb: conk kóngk
Usage: informal
Usage: Brit, informal (N. Amer: nose)
Usage: informal
- Stop because the engine stopped running
"The car conked in the driveway";
- stall
- Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
"She nearly conked when she heard the shocking news";
- faint, swoon, pass out
- Hit, especially on the head
"The stranger conked him and he fainted"
- Cease to live
"The old fellow conked yesterday";
- die, decease [archaic], perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], give up the ghost [informal], drop dead [informal], pop off [informal], croak [informal], snuff it [informal], cash in [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], flatline [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], pass on
Usage: Brit, informal (N. Amer: nose)
- The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
"he has a cold in the conk";
- nose, olfactory organ, beak [informal], honker [informal], hooter [informal], nozzle [informal], snoot [informal], snout [informal], schnozzle [informal], schnoz [informal]
Derived forms: conking, conks, conked
Type of: black out, change state, chemoreceptor, halt, hit, pass out, stop, turn, zonk [informal], zonk out [informal]
Part of: face, human face, upper respiratory tract
Encyclopedia: Conk