conkers

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conkers

/ˈkɒŋ.kəz/
/ˈkɒŋ.kəɹz/

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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

UK, plural, 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.
Similar: cobbler

noun

plural plural of conker

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@misc{conkers_2026,
  title = {conkers},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/conkers},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}