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Conkers meaning
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.
Example sentences (7)
Conkers have been around for years and even though they seem pretty harmless, they're actually dangerous for dogs.
A game of conkers and singing of campfire songs.
Conkers were in abundance in the bottom corner of the field.
Smaller conkers are also more difficult to hit, which gives you an obvious advantage when you're defending rather than attacking.
Chestnuts you can eat – conkers you cannot.
Mr Caring, 71, who grew up in Finchley, north London, said he delighted in climbing trees as a boy but when he went back to where he once gathered conkers, there were none to be seen.
An ‘expert’ has written to us to explain “This year has been one of the best for the conker harvest and the storm brought down many competition size conkers in and around Wrexham.