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noun
The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A nose, especially a large one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Alternative spelling of conch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated
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verb
To hit, especially on the head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated
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verb
To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, often
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verb
To become unconscious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, often
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noun
informal term for the nose
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: nose, olfactory organ
verb
pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: faint, swoon, pass out
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Broader terms: zonk out, pass out, black out
verb
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
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Broader terms: change state, turn
Narrower terms: abort, suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, starve, famish, fall, succumb, yield
verb
hit, especially on the head
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hit
verb
come to a stop
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stall
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Broader terms: stop, halt
History
Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century.
From congolene, the brand name of a hair-straightening product.
Unknown. Attested since the early twentieth century.
Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
