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Sock

noun

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

A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind. Synonyms: air-sleeve, air sock, drogue, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock.

verb

Hit hard. Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, whap, whop.

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"Sock" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the world's as wet as this," said Agnes, who had peeled off her brother's sock, and was now toasting it at the embers on a pair ...

— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster

... I, 'mad as a coot,' an' I tuk wan stip forward, an' the nixt I knew was the sole av my boot flappin' like a cavalry gydon an' the - funny-bone av my toes tinglin'. 'Twas a clane-cut shot - a slug - that niver touched sock or hide, but set me bare-fut on the rocks. At that I tuk Love-o'- Women by the scruff an' threw him under a bowlder, an' whin I sat down I heard the bullets patterin' on ...

— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling

... don't make no claims, old sock. Mebbe I'm handy with a fry-pan, mebbe I ain't. Likely you're jest partial to my flapjacks," the little man said in order to ...

— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine

... "Safer than a sock, my boy. And just as simple. To-morrow will do for that, when we call on the shirt-makers and the shoe sharps. I'll put you in my bank; they'll take you on ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... snorted. "After twenty years of her? Comet-gas! Anyway, would you have the sublime gall to make passes at Warner Oil's heiress, with more millions in her own sock ...

— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith

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