CONK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conk mean? 

• CONK (noun)
  The noun CONK has 1 sense:

1. informal term for the nose

  Familiarity information: CONK used as a noun is very rare.

• CONK (verb)
  The verb CONK has 4 senses:

1. come to a stop

2. hit, especially on the head

3. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

4. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

  Familiarity information: CONK used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal term for the nose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("conk" is a kind of...):

nose; olfactory organ (the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

conk (hit, especially on the head)

• CONK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they conk    ... he / she / it conks   
Past simple: conked   
Past participle: conked   
-ing form: conking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to a stop

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

conk; stall

Context example:

The car stalled in the driveway

Hypernyms (to "conk" is one way to...):

halt; stop (come to a halt, stop moving)

Domain category:

driving (the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hit, especially on the head

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The stranger conked him and he fainted

Hypernyms (to "conk" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue conk the movie

Derivation:

conk (informal term for the nose)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Context example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Hypernyms (to "conk" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "conk"):

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

conk; faint; pass out; swoon

Hypernyms (to "conk" is one way to...):

black out; pass out; zonk out (lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

It von’t be long that you’ll be able to see my crooks vich ’ave been on Figg’s conk, and on Jack Broughton’s, and on ’Arry Gray’s, and many another good fightin’ man that was millin’ for a livin’ before your fathers could eat pap.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Vell, then, ven Bob was put up opposite this great Eytalian man I says ‘Slap ’im in the vind, Bob,’ ’cos I could see vid ’alf an eye that he vas as puffy as a cheesecake; so Bob he goes in, and as he comes the vorriner let ’im ’ave it amazin’ on the conk.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)