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Verb: conk  kóngk
Usage: informal
  1. Stop because the engine stopped running
    "The car conked in the driveway";
    - stall
     
  2. 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
     
  3. Hit, especially on the head
    "The stranger conked him and he fainted"
     
  4. 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
Noun: conk  kóngk
Usage: Brit, informal (N. Amer: nose)
  1. 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