Definition of "conk" [conk]

• The head. (noun)
• A blow, especially on the head. (noun)
• Chiefly British The human nose. (noun)
• To hit, especially on the head. (verb-transitive)
• To stop functioning; fail: The engine conked out on the final lap. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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."
• "Paris blows hers out; Malcolm's early "conk" came courtesy of a painful lye job."
• "Just as it seem like they can't shout any louder, we hear this big "conk," which sound like somebody get hit over the head with a board or somethin."