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Conkers is a traditional children's game in Great Britain and Ireland played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees—the name 'conker' is also applied to the seed and to the tree itself. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns striking each other's conker until one breaks.
Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.
It is also called horse-chestnut, [5] European horsechestnut, [6] buckeye, [7] and conker tree. [8] It is not to be confused with the sweet chestnut or Spanish chestnut, Castanea sativa , which is a tree in another family, Fagaceae .
Conker, a video game franchise by Rare Conker's Pocket Tales, the first solo game in the series; Conker's Bad Fur Day, the second game in the series; Conker: Live & Reloaded, an Xbox remake of the second game; Conker the Squirrel, the main character in the series
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The World Conker Championships (WCC) is a conkers tournament held annually on the second Sunday in October [1] in the county of Northamptonshire, England. Two players use conkers threaded onto a string and take turns to strike the other's nut until it shatters. [ 2 ]