Conk

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  • noun. A hairstyle in which the hair is straightened, usually by chemical means.
  • transitive verb. To straighten (tightly curled hair) usually by chemical means.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The head.
  • noun. A blow, especially on the head.
  • noun. The human nose.
  • intransitive verb. To hit, especially on the head.
  • intransitive verb. To stop functioning; fail.
  • intransitive verb. To fall asleep, especially suddenly or heavily.
  • intransitive verb. To pass out; faint.
  • intransitive verb. To die.
  • noun. A hard, shelflike, spore-bearing structure of certain wood-decaying fungi, found on stumps, logs, or trees.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The head.
  • noun. The nose.
  • noun. In botany, a tough, leathery, or woody fungus, especially Trametes pini, whose fruiting bodies are bracket-like in form and occur upon the trunks of trees, producing a decay of the timber.
  • noun. A confidential chat.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. to hit on the head.
  • noun. the head.
  • noun. a blow to the head.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a Bracket fungus (A.K.A. Shelf fungus), i.e., a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
  • noun. A nose, especially a large one.
  • noun. Alternative spelling of conch.
  • verb. To hit, especially on the head.
  • verb. To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
  • verb. come to a stop
  • noun. informal term for the nose
  • verb. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  • verb. hit, especially on the head
  • Word Usage
    "It also refers to the "conk" style in which tightly curled hair is straightened using the chemical congolene (or should it be conkolene, according to Lionel Boyd) and then combed out."
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Montblanc  bonk  bronc  conch  cronk  
    Same Context
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    Synonym
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    beak  beezer  belfry  cash in  check out  
    verb-form
    conked  conking  conks