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conk out; konk out; clonk out verb to fall asleep; to pass out; to stop operating UK, 1917- I don’t conk out on grape! — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 34, 1959
- The Plymouth conked out on La Brea avenue, and we had to take three buses out to Boyle Heights. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 65, 1961
- He told me he’d stolen a car and it conked out on him. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 142, 1965
- He just crawled into the back seat, said “West 45th Street,” and conked out. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- [T]he engine is diabolical. British Leyland. Conks out, all the time. — Mike Stott, Soldiers Talking, Cleanly, 1978
- It was dawn and I wanted to conk out. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 290, 1979
- At this point Iris lay back in her chair and konked out on him. He could slap her face all he wanted, throw water in it, hold her under the shower–he could see she wasn’t about to come around for the rest of the night. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 190, 1985
- I switched myself to auto-pilot and, like a clonked-out zombie, just rode and rode. — Josie Dew, The Sun In My Eyes, p. 307, 2001
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