An Afro-American hairstyle of chemically straightened hair. The Conk was popular from about the 1940's to the mid 1960's when the "natural" hairstyle became popular.
The "Conk" was also known as a "Process" and worn by just about every black male entertainer.
A procedure in which the hair of an african-american boy is straightened through the use of potatoes, lye,vaseline,and soap. It is a mark of passage to adulthood and masculinity, because of the intense pain inherent in the process.
''Damn right, it's hot, thats the lye...it's going to burn when I comb it in--it burns bad...Shorty started combing it in. But then my head caught fire... The comb felt as if it was raking my skin off.''
--Autobiography of MalcolmX--
a slang alternative for a human, or other animal, head containing the brain at the topmost part of the body . Synonymous with {dome], melon, skull, noodle, bean, brain bucket, cranium, block, and munkus.