Definitions for conk

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Spelling: [kongk, kawngk]

IPA: /kɒŋk, kɔŋk/

Conk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in conk (ckno).

Definitions for conk

noun

1. the head.
2. a blow on the head.
3. British. the nose.
4. the shelflike fruiting body of certain wood-decaying fungi; bracket.
5. a method of chemically straightening the hair.
6. a hairstyle in which the hair has been chemically straightened and sometimes set into waves.

verb (used with object)

1. to hit or strike on the head.
2. to straighten (kinky hair) by the use of chemicals:

verb (used without object)

1. to break or fail, as a machine or engine (often followed by out):
2. to slow down or stop; lose energy (often followed by out).
3. to go to sleep (usually followed by off or out).
4. to lose consciousness; faint (usually followed by out).
5. to die (usually followed by out).

Origin of conk

First recorded in 1805-15; of obscure origin

Examples for conk

If you comes makin' a row 'ere I'll land you one on the conk, so you'd best clear out!'

We hear toward evening, high in air, the "conk" of the wild-geese.

This horn is a conk shell, bored at one end, and its sound is heard at a great distance.

There is a cancerous disease peculiar to the Pine-tree, to which lumbermen give the original name of "conk" or "Konkus."

We has to be ready for the field by daylight and the conk was blowed, and massa call out, 'All hands ready for the field.'

I member the very day, on the 10th of May, old mistress blowed the conk and told us we was free.

This unmusical "conk" is sweeter than the "kerchunk" of the bull-frog.

"You better be thinking of getting us in, one of my engines is about to conk out on me," he called across.

Praying for sleep, perhaps, but the right to conk out near the table?

"I got the fog out of my conk to-day, Fanny," he said exultantly.