[
UK
/kˈɒnk/
]
[ US /ˈkɑŋk/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑŋk/ ]
NOUN
- informal term for the nose
VERB
-
come to a stop
The car stalled in the driveway -
hit, especially on the head
The stranger conked him and he fainted - pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
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pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
The children perished in the fire
She died from cancer
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
The patient went peacefully
How To Use conk In A Sentence
- She was so tired she came home and conked out at eight o'clock.
- Thanks to her doctor’s recommendations she finds herself feeling decafargic by noon. cardiacpopups – the messages that popup on your computer when you are in the middle of an important project and warn you that your computer is about to conk out. on 07 Sep 2007 at 5: 52 pm Kimberly defurrify – to remove pet hair/dander from a person or thing on 07 Sep 2007 at 6: 12 pm Heather Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
- The only use he serves as a coach is that his nose just about crosses the touchline when he's sat in the dugout, so there's every chance he'll be able to trip up a tricky winger with his conk.
- Russian Hill is a nice neighborhood for a pross, " Conklin said. 7th Heaven
- Now the microwave oven was pretty old and I'm not surprised it conked out, but the iron was relatively new and I hadn't been expecting it to explode in my hand for another couple of years at the earliest.
- The gas man comethed this morning and replaced the whole of the heat exchanger doobry, which hopefully should fix the niggly problem that we’ve had with the boiler conking out every six months or so. Twas on a wednesday morning ...
- “The main point limiting any customization in Linux is that u only have got conky – a text based configurator … Sure its the best one out … but you cannot render an image in it directly..” The Stylish Ubuntu Desktop | Lifehacker Australia
- I felt that Marjorie might overdo it: also that Conky, who loved the sound of his voice, might be tempted to soothe the old man with intempestive gusts of song. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916
- The command is simply "conky", because I use the default location for the configuration file (/etc/conky/conky. conf), which I ocassionally modify. PCLinuxOS-Forums
- Safely disposing of any financially sensitive information took up too much time, especially after my shredder conked out.