conked (out) adj.
1. usu. of a machine or engine, broken, no longer working.
‘I Want a G-Nôme’ in Airman’s Song Book (1945) 26: Give me the spluttering, conking G-nôme. | ||
Mr Standfast (1930) 606: Archie passed back a slip of paper on which he had scribbled: ‘Engine conked. Must land at Micklegill. Very sorry.’. | ||
(con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 138: Konked (Konked Out): An Air Force term used of an aeroplane engine stopped working [...] a general expression meaning ‘knocked out’, dead. | ||
Decade 310: Too bad the giants are gone. Conked out, dead and buried, or selling shoe-laces. | ||
Theatre One 19: Your nerves is just conked in. | Street-Women in Gray||
Bloody January 292: A bus had conked out in the snow in Argyle Street. |
2. in ext. or fig. use, of a person, collapsed, asleep, dead.
Legion of Marching Madmen 109: ‘[H]how’n hell you going to find the dame? She may be conked out by now’. | ||
Deadly Streets (1983) 130: Is he conked? | ‘With a Knife in her Hand’ in||
There Must Be a Pony! 70: The dogs were conked out in the trophy room. | ||
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1969) 84: One moment all conked out, but with her eyes open, staring. | ||
(con. 1945) Tattoo (1977) 357: He [...] hurried to where Pete lay like a conked supplicant before a cross. | ||
Dead Zone (1980) 101: The patient was completely conked out. | ||
Scotland on Sunday mag. 7 Nov. 17: If I didn’t take heroin, I would be on the floor conked out with the skitters, shaking, being sick, hot and cold sweats. | ||
Life 403: Everyone else is conked out on the floor. | ||
Life During Wartime (2018) 25: A couple had a stroller with their conked out child. | ‘Big Snip’ in||
What They Was 101: Rah, ain’t my man gonna be concked out nah? | ||
(con. 1962) Enchanters 409: Jack K. remained conked at the fuck pad. |