conker
noun /ˈkɒŋ.kər/
/ˈkɑːŋ.kɚ/ mainly UKDefinition
› [C] the shiny brown poisonous nut of a horse chestnut treeFruits and seeds and their parts conkers [U] › a children's game in which you have a conker with a string through it and try to break another child's conker by hitting it with yoursChildren's games
(Definition of conker noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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