Etymology

conkers

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Today it 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. Full definition →

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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.

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