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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

  1. (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.
  2. (form-of, plural) plural of conker
    form of conker

Synonyms

cobbler