Conk

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paris blows hers out; Malcolm's early "conk" came courtesy of a painful lye job. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Groom, Winston, 1944- (1986)

The Montague people in 1759 paid £1 10s. for their "conk," and also on the purchase year gave Joseph Root 20 shillings for blowing the new shell. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

We hear toward evening, high in air, the "conk" of the wild-geese. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

Some would return with their hair "conk" a la James Brown and so much brilliantine you could smell it around the corner.

With my wild zoot suit I wore the yellow knob-toe shoes, and I frizzled my hair up into a reddish bush of conk. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Carrying your key next to your cellphone is often all it takes to make one of these keys conk out. ❋ Andrea Petersen (2011)

Headlights may be prone to fogging, and the car's electronics can short intermittently or conk out altogether. ❋ Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo (2011)

Pretend to be a prostitute/hire a prostitute, wait 'till your prey is naked, conk them out and take their clothes. ❋ Kateelliott (2009)

And if you do conk out and end up taking a nap, Dr. Perlis says to "balance the books" by going to bed even later than usual the next night. ❋ Andrea Petersen (2011)

Seriously, I have these fevered memories of the ring producing a giant green photon hammer to conk some dude on the melon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cabin pressure and high altitude typically cause the taste buds to conk out a mixed blessing, some might say, which means Heston Blumenthal has his work cut out preparing the kind of gourmet dishes for British Airways that airline passengers will actually appreciate. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And so, Michael's sad, desperate journey to the land of de-nubification would begin — first with the throwback conk/curls and as time would go by, the more extreme, outré modifications to skin, sinew and bone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Guests are kept so busy, they use rooms mainly to conk out.5:30 p.m. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"We Tennessee hillbillies don't conk out that easy," she later said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

''Damn right, it's hot, thats the [lye]...it's going to burn when I comb it in--it burns bad...Shorty started combing it in. But then my head [caught fire]... [The comb] felt as if it was raking my skin off.'' --Autobiography of MalcolmX-- ❋ Marcus ''mother F'in'' Handy (2004)

[The car] is [conked out]. ❋ Gumba Gumba (2004)

Look at that [blokes] conk! He [conked] me on the head. I [conked out] at about 3 am. ❋ Holyroman (2005)

"I… hit him repeatedly on the conk. My reason for this was that his conk was covered with carbuncles, and I thought I should vex him by taking such liberties with his conk—which in fact I did." -Quoted from Thomas de [Quincey], "On Murder Considered as One of [the Fine Arts]," first published [1827]. ❋ MaSh92587 (2006)

oooo [tht's] a right [Conk] (sexy [ostrich]) ❋ Cotton Mate (2005)

*[hits] head* "[Ow fuck], I just got [conked]" ❋ Jenny (2003)

That [Smithy] has a [big] conk. ❋ Craig Hanlon (2003)

"[You are a] [right] conk!" ❋ Broders Mate (2005)

[Doge]: why does dis [bepis] taste different? Gabe: it was conk! Doge: you have [betrayed] me! ❋ Skipperdogman (2017)

that [barry manilow] sings through his [big] conk! ❋ Duck (2004)