sock
//sɒk//
Forms
- Plural
- socks
- present (v1)
- sock
- past (v2)
- socked
- past participle (v3)
- socked
- present participle
- socking
- 3rd person singular
- socks
Definitions
1.A knitted or woven covering for the foot.
2.The lower leg of an animal (of an animal) that is a different color (usually white) from the color pattern on the rest of the animal.
3.A sleeve for a microphone to reduce noise.
4.Ellipsis of gun sock.(informal)
1.The sound of a punch or powerful blow.
- Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
1.To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.(slang)
- What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.
- They may let you off the first time because you're new maybe. But the second time they'll sock it to you, give you a couple of days in the Hole, then throw you in Number Two.
- "We must get the old dear out," said Lord Roxton to Malone. "He'll be had for manslaughter if we don't. What I mean, he's not responsible - he'll sock someone and be lagged for it."
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4505
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language.