conk out

conk out

Verb

Informal

1. (of a machine or car) to break down

2. to become tired or fall asleep suddenly [origin unknown]

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	conk out - stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" break - render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" croak, decease, die, drop dead, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, pop off, expire, conk, exit, choke, go, pass - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" go down, crash - stop operating; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" blow out, burn out, blow - melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew" misfire - fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired" malfunction, misfunction - fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned"
	2.	conk out - use up all one's strength and energy and stop working; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" poop out, peter out, run down, run out fatigue, jade, tire, weary, pall - lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

Translations

conk out [kɔŋk-] vi (col) → estropearse, fastidiarse, descomponerse (LAM)

conk out [kɔŋk-] vi (inf) → tomber or rester en panne

conk out [kɔŋk-] (inf) vi → den Geist aufgeben

conk out [kɔŋk-] vi (col) → andare in panne