Definitions for CONK
kɒŋk, kɔŋkconk

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conkverb

   informal term for the nose

2. stall, conkverb

   come to a stop

   "The car stalled in the driveway"

3. conkverb

   hit, especially on the head

   "The stranger conked him and he fainted"

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

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

   "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

5. faint, conk, swoon, pass outverb

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conknoun

   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.

2. conknoun

   A nose, especially a large one.

3. conknoun

   Alternate spelling of conch.

4. conkverb

   To hit, especially on the head.

5. conkverb

   To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conk

   The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to early-mid 1960s. This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes. The applier had to wear gloves and the solution timed just right on the applicant's head and then thoroughly rinsed out with cold water to avoid chemical burns. The desired outcome was for the newly straightened hair to be easily styled in the popular "conk" style of that era.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conk

   Conk primarily refers to two different meanings in English language: 1) Conk is slang for a person's nose, particularly a large or prominent one, often used lightheartedly or humorously. 2) Conk is also a term for a method of straightening frizzy or kinky hair, particularly practiced by African-Americans, in the mid-20th century. It involves the use of lye or other strong alkaline substances.

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conk

   The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s to the 1960s. This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer, so that the newly straightened hair could be styled in specific ways. Often, the relaxer was made at home, by mixing lye, eggs, and potatoes, the applier having to wear gloves and the receiver's head having to be rinsed thoroughly after application to avoid chemical burns. Conks were often styled as large pompadours although other men chose to simply slick their straightened hair back, allowing it to lie flat on their heads. Regardless of the styling, conks required a considerable amount of effort to maintain: a man often had to wear a do-rag of some sort at home, to prevent sweat or other agents from causing his hair to revert to its natural state prematurely. Also, the style required repeated application of relaxers; as new hair grew in, it too had to be chemically straightened. Many of the popular musicians of the early to mid 20th century, including Chuck Berry, Louis Jordan, Little Richard, James Brown, and the members of The Temptations and The Miracles, were well known for sporting the conk hairstyle. The gatefold of the 1968 album Electric Mud shows blues legend Muddy Waters having his hair conked. The style fell out of popularity when the Black Power movement of the 1960s took hold, and the Afro became a popular symbol of African pride. The conk was a major plot device in Spike Lee's film biography Malcolm X, based upon Malcolm X's own condemnation of the hairstyle as black self-degradation in his autobiography because of its implications about the superiority of a more "white" appearance and because of the pain the process causes and the possibility of receiving severe burns to the scalp.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conk

   kongk, n. the nose.—n. Conk′y (slang), a person with a large nose. [Mr F. Hindes Groome suggests that it may be back slang, conk being the illiterate spelling of the Gipsy knoc, nose.]

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1. CONK

   What does CONK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CONK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CONK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Conk is ranked #52482 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Conk surname appeared 395 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Conk.
   
   92.9% or 367 total occurrences were White.
   4.3% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.2% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Change State
   • Driving
   • Hit
   • Stop
   • Zonk Out

Anagrams for CONK »

1. nock

How to pronounce CONK?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say CONK in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONK in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of CONK in a Sentence

1. Joy Behar:

   I can watch CNN, or something really, really boring… or some real old movie like ‘Casablanca,’ which I keep on all the time, and I can conk out for 10, 15 minutes.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CONK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Conk
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conk
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=CONK
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CONK
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html