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sock
1[sok]
noun
plural
socks, soxa short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.
a lightweight shoe worn by ancient Greek and Roman comic actors.
comic writing for the theater; comedy or comic drama.
Furniture.a raised vertical area of a club or pad foot.
sock
2[sok]
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard.
noun
a hard blow.
a very successful show, performance, actor, etc..
The show was a sock.
adjective
extremely successful.
a sock performance.
verb phrase
to close or ground because of adverse weather conditions.
The airport was socked in.
to put into savings or reserve.
sock
1/ ɒ /
noun
a cloth covering for the foot, reaching to between the ankle and knee and worn inside a shoe
an insole put in a shoe, as to make it fit better
a light shoe worn by actors in ancient Greek and Roman comedy, sometimes taken to allude to comic drama in general (as in the phrase sock and buskin ) See buskin
another name for windsock
informalto make a determined effort, esp in order to regain control of a situation
slangbe quiet!
verb
(tr) to provide with socks
slang(of an airport) closed by adverse weather conditions
sock
2/ ɒ /
verb
(usually tr) to hit with force
to make a forceful impression on
noun
a forceful blow
Other 51Թ Forms
- sockless adjective
- socklessness noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sock1
Origin of sock2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sock1
Origin of sock2
Example Sentences
Seven-time major winner Gene Sarazen started the trend when he said Oakmont possesses "all the charm of a sock to the head".
One thing is clear - he wants players who are happy to run hard, run a lot and work their socks off.
The actor sits on a couch in a rented house in Los Feliz, his shoes kicked off to reveal socks patterned with the gloomy face of Edgar Allan Poe.
The Angels, as a whole, socked 19 home runs across the eight-game stretch — the power appeared to help them surge to third place in a division more than up for grabs.
My husband was an expert in everything, even in the way I cut tomatoes, hemmed pants, folded socks.
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When To Use
A sock is a piece of clothing worn on the foot that usually extends to around the ankle. As a verb, sock means to hit hard. The word sock has a few other senses as a noun and an adjective.A sock is worn on the foot and is almost always made of cloth, such as cotton or wool. It usually covers the entire foot and stretches to around the ankle but may sometimes extend higher. Socks are almost always made or sold in pairs, in order to cover both feet.The plural of sock is socks or, rarely, sox. Sox rarely appears in formal writing with two exceptions: The names of the American baseball teams the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox (Go Sox!).
- Real-life examples: You are probably wearing a pair of socks right now. Soccer players wear knee-high socks. Most people don’t wear socks while wearing sandals.
- Used in a sentence: Whenever I do laundry, I somehow end up with a leftover sock.
- Used in a sentence: I watched as the boxer was socked right in the jaw and fell down.
- Used in a sentence: After the boxer got a sock in the jaw, he fell down.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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