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conk
verb- to straighten hair using any number of chemical processes US, 1944
- The face of a colored youth with slick conked hair and beardless cheeks stared up. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 25, 1959
- Everybody understood that my head had to stay kinky a while longer, to grow long enough for Shorty to conk it for me. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 51, 1964
- He had his hair conked, but around his ears and at the nape of his neck were the hard, tight burrs he wanted so much to hide. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 86, 1968
- [S]ince I had my hat conked in them days, I had no “do-rag” round my skull. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 119, 1972
- Then you had a pimp name of Red Conk on account of he conked his hair red (hair was straight in them days one way or other–Dixie Peach or Sulfur 8). — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 13, 1975
- Wasn’t but yesterday you was conkin’ yo’ head with a steam iron at your ol’ lady’s beauty parlor. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 18, 1977
- to hit someone, especially on the head UK, 1821
- Mac would conk the ugly customers on the top and carry them outside[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 70, 1946
- Larry Fay liked to roam around his own night clubs–which were sometimes multiple–with a roll of nickels (like the cashiers have) in his hand and look for an excuse to conk somebody[.] — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 200, 1956
- “Sam,” he said, “I think I’ll get up and conk him.” — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 78, 1957
- to kill someone US, 1918
- He was yellow. That’s what caused him to get conked. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 41, 1948
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