n. 1. A horse chestnut. 2. con·kers A game in which two players swing horse chestnuts strung on string, with both players trying to use their own horse chestnut to shatter their opponent's. [From British English dialectal conker, snail shell used in the original form of the game of conkers (in which two snail shells were pressed together until one broke), either from alteration of CONQUEROR, one that conquers, hard snail shell that had won many games of conkers, or from variant of CONCH, or from a combination of both .] |
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n. One that conks or hits. |
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n. One that conks, as when styling hair. |
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