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conk out

Other forms: conked out; conks out

Definitions of conk out
  1. verb
    stop operating or functioning
    break
    render inoperable or ineffective
    buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it
    pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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    crash, go down
    stop operating
    blow, blow out, burn out
    melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
    misfire
    fail to fire or detonate
    glitch, malfunction, misfunction
    fail to function or function improperly
    jam
    get stuck and immobilized
    type of:
    change
    undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
  2. verb
    use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
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    type of:
    fatigue, jade, pall, tire, weary
    lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
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