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conk; konk
noun- the head US, 1870
- The halo that started to shape up around my conk was so big and bright, I felt like an overgrown glow-worm. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 89, 1946
- the nose; hence, a nickname for anyone blessed with a big nose UK, 1812
Possibly from “conch” (a large shell) with Latin and Greek derivations. - No thanks. I once shoved that stuff up me conk and me hankie turned brown. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- [A]ll the charlie [cocaine] he’d ever shoved up his conk[.] — Drugs An Adult Guide, p. 17, December 2001
- a hairstyle in which naturally curly hair is chemically straightened; hence, the hair straightening process; the chemical preparation required US, 1942
- Even the solid cats in their pancho conks didn’t ruffle me. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 43, 1945
- Three brown-faced youngsters–all not yet twenty–whom Teese knew, lunged importantly at the glazed-glass front of the billiard hall, hair slicked and twirled in the fashionable konk[.] — Clarence Cooper Jr, Black, p. 189, 1963
- I couldn’t get over marveling at how their hair was straight and shiny like white men’s hair; Ella told me this was called a “conk.” — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 43, 1964
- — Janey Ironside, A Fashion Alphabet, p. 190, 1968
- He’d drop by the school and be vined down. He was clean, Jim. Had him a conk then and he knew he was ready. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 24, 1969
- Some of them look like, you know, with the fancy hair [referring to high conks or “process,” straightened and teased hair]. — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 114, 1972
- I went to a barber shop way up in the wilds of the South Bronx, rec-ommended by some walking exponents of one hair-straightening process known as the “konk.” — Piri Thomas, Stories from El Barrio, p. 50, 1978
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