conk out
informal— phrasal verb with conk uk/kɒŋk/us/kɑːŋk/verb [ T ] informal humorous
If vehicles and other machines conk out, they stop working or fail suddenly:
I was just two miles from home when my motorbike conked out!
to go to sleep very quickly, or to suddenly become unconscious:
After a six-hour flight and a long day of meetings, it's not surprising you conked out.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- fritz
- ghost
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- outage
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- whack
- wrong
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