conkers en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkɒŋ.kəz/ non-rhotic
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɒŋ.kəɹz/ rhotic
Etymology
By surface analysis, conker + -s, although the game itself came before the modern meaning of conker as "horse chestnut". See conker for more details.
Meanings
- (UK, plural, plural-only) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
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(form-of, plural) plural of conker
form of conker