Definitions for conks

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Spelling: [kongk, kawngk]

IPA: /kɒŋk, kɔŋk/

Conks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in conks (cknos).

Definitions for conks

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 conks

First recorded in 1805-15; of obscure origin

Examples for conks

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.