Definitions for Socksɒk

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

socksɒk(n.)(pl.)socks or, for 1 , sometimes sox.

  1. a short stocking usu. reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.

    Category: Clothing

  2. a lightweight shoe worn by ancient Greek and Roman comic actors.

    Category: Clothing, Showbiz

  3. comic writing for the theater; comedy or comic drama.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Showbiz

    Ref: Compare buskin (def. 3). 4

  4. (v.t.)sock away,to put into savings or reserve.

  5. sock in,to close up (an airport) or ground (an aircraft).

Origin of sock:

bef. 900; ME socke, OE socc蠐 L soccus slipper

socksɒk(v.t.)

  1. to strike or hit hard.

  2. (n.)a hard blow.

    Category: Status (usage)

  3. Category: Status (usage)

    Ref: socko.

Origin of sock:

1690–1700; orig. uncert.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. sock(noun)

    hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee

  2. windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind sleeve, wind cone, drogue(verb)

    a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

  3. sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash(verb)

    hit hard

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. sock(noun)ɒk

    one of a pair of cloth or wool coverings for your feet

    a pair of striped socks

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sock(noun)

    a plowshare

  2. Sock(noun)

    the shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin

  3. Sock(noun)

    a knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg

  4. Sock(noun)

    a warm inner sole for a shoe


Translations for Sock

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

sock(noun)

(slang) a strong blow with the fist

He gave me a sock on the jaw.

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