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What are conkers?

What are conkers? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of conker
  2. (Britain, uncountable) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string and take it in turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
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We all have memories of playing conkers, or dunking apples and collecting leaves at this time of year.
A headmaster has bought his pupils safety goggles in a bid to stop a council banning games of conkers.
Some friends and I were innocently collecting conkers, when suddenly the owner arrived on the scene with a gun in his hand.
More than a thousand conkers had been harvested from the arboretum's 102 horse chestnut trees for use in a variety of games.
The children just love conkers, which is a game that many of them had never played before.
But when you show me children, it is easier for me to believe the horrors if I also see them playing Knock Down Ginger, or conkers, or whatever.

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