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conking out
verb
Present participle of conk out
Exact(18)
"Old boilers are conking out," she said.
He's tired of his technology conking out on him.
It powers the drone but is prone to conking out, for reasons that remain unclear.
And from this point the film keeps conking out, its fuel entirely derived from movie life rather than the real thing.
They said only that she was a selfish bloody bitch if she was thinking of conking out now, any sooner than was necessary.
After a car accident in 2006, Tyler woke up in 1973, both conking out and reviving to David Bowie's anthem of displacement, "Life on Mars".
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My phone conked out mid-flight.
And the battery conks out after less than an hour.
He conked out but he was awake again at half-three.
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood's overseas engine conked out in 2016.
Look at him, conked out, nose glistening, such an innocent.
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