conk v.2
1. to hit, esp. on the nose or head, to knock out.
Boxiana III 338: Spring however conked his opponent, when they closed. | ||
Derby Dly Teleg. 7 Apr. 3/3: Schoolboy slang [...] to hit — bash, conk. | ||
Red Wind (1946) 112: If I didn’t get conked out of hand, I might learn who was who. | ‘Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’||
One Way Ticket 73: The steam gauge is over there, and the first time you let the steam drop or the water get outa sight I’ll konk ya with this monkey wrench. | ||
Ups and Downs of Newsy Wapps Bk 1 31: I squirm and wriggle and fuss and she ‘Kunks’ me in my head. | ||
Really the Blues 70: Mac would conk the ugly customers on the top and carry them outside. | ||
On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 180: I don’t like that fairy at the bar [...] I think I’ll get up and conk him. | ||
Honest Rainmaker (1991) 114: I am lucky that he did not konk me with the cane. | ||
Last Exit to Brooklyn 100: She relaxed and gave it thought. Cant konk im here. | ||
Public Burning (1979) 271: The b-girl retaliates by conking him over the head with another beer bottle. | ||
Summer Lightning 85: Stan still yu jumbo-head bwoy or a konk yu till yu fenny. | ‘The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream’||
Rivethead (1992) 111: I wondered what approach he might have taken had it been his own grandmother konked silly and heaped on the Rivet Line floor. | ||
From Bondage 281: The newspapers were just as full today as they were when he was conked on the bean with newspaper bludgeons. | ||
Plainclothes Naked (2002) 106: No doubt he’d just as soon have conked an old lady for her pin money. | ||
Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] I’m not surprised my quarry nutted me out first, tiptoed up behind me and conked me on the skull. | ‘Dread Fellow Churls’ in
2. (US) to kill.
Flying Fighter 334: Conked. A new word which is taken from the Russian language and which means stopped or killed. | ||
Criminalese. | ||
Double-Action Gang June 🌐 ‘Luck?’ ‘Uhuh. Number ten conked,’ Benny reported. | ‘Revolt of the Damned’ in||
Ten Detective Aces Dec. 🌐 You haven’t had a client since Cain conked Abel. | ‘Fifty-Grand Funeral’ in||
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in Four Novels (1983) 105: He was yellow. That’s what caused him to get conked. |
3. in fig. use, i.e. to burden with, to assail.
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 2 Sept. 6/5: Me schmaltzy gabber couldn’t red a Chicago piano rap, so the D.A. conks me with a whole mag. |
4. see conk (out) v.
In phrases
1. to kill.
in Destination Tokyo [film script] If we got conked off, do you think we’d see our folks in the hereafter [HDAS]. |
2. to fall asleep, to sleep.
in Calif. Folklore Quarterly 387: Whoever knocks off work in order to rest or sleep conks out, conks off, caulks off or flakes out. | ||
I, Mobster 88: You been conking off for eight hours nearly. | ||
, | DAS. |
3. to stop work, to skive.
, | DAS. |
4. to die.
Lonely Londoners 117: Moses [...] frighten like hell that the woman might conk off on his hands. | ||
Valley of the Dolls 395: He thought she’d conk off in a few years. |
see separate entry.