déconner
verbVulgar
A French slang term. Browse all French slang.
What it means
To mess about; to talk nonsense. Tu déconnes? — 'are you kidding?'
Of a device: to play up. Mon ordi déconne.
Sans déconner: seriously, no joke.
Examples with translations
Sans déconner, il a vraiment dit ça?
Seriously, he actually said that?
Ma connexion déconne depuis ce matin.
My connection has been playing up since this morning.
Where it comes from
Built on a vulgar root, though the word itself is widely used and lands closer to 'to mess about' than to anything stronger.