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conkers.

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.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɒŋ.kəz//ˈkɒŋ.kəɹz/
  1. 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.

    UK · plural · plural-only
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, conker + -s, although the game itself came before the modern meaning of conker as "horse chestnut". See conker for more details.

noun/ˈkɒŋ.kəz//ˈkɒŋ.kəɹz/
  1. plural of conker

    form-of · plural
Where this word comes from

By surface analysis, conker + -s, although the game itself came before the modern meaning of conker as "horse chestnut". See conker for more details.

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