conkers
/ˈkɒŋ.kəz/
conkers noun: 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. Also the plural of conker.
Noun
conkers pl (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.
- Synonyms:
- cobbler
Also used as
conkers is also the plural of conker.
Synonyms of conkers
Origin of conkers
By surface analysis, conker + -s, although the game itself came before the modern meaning of conker as "horse chestnut". See conker for more details.
Questions about conkers
- What does conkers mean?
- Conkers means 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.
- What part of speech is conkers?
- Conkers is a noun.
- How do you pronounce conkers?
- Conkers is pronounced /ˈkɒŋ.kəz/.
Words near conkers in the dictionary
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