crocked

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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noun

British Dialect. soot; smut.

excess surface dye from imperfectly dyed cloth.

verb (used with object)

British Dialect. to soil with soot.

verb (used without object)

(of cloth) to give off excess surface dye when rubbed.

Origin:
1650–60; origin uncertain

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crock¹ (krɒk)

—n
1.	an earthen pot, jar, etc
2.	a piece of broken earthenware
3.	informal (US), (Canadian) Also: crock of shit a quantity or source of lies or nonsense

[Old English crocc pot; related to Old Norse krukka jug, Middle Low German krūke pot]

crock² (krɒk)

—n
1.	slang chiefly (Brit) a person or thing, such as a car, that is old or decrepit (esp in the phrase old crock)
2.	an old broken-down horse or ewe

—vb
3.	slang chiefly (Brit) to become or cause to become weak or disabled

[C15: originally Scottish; related to Norwegian krake unhealthy animal, Dutch kraak decrepit person or animal]

crock³ (krɒk)

—n
1.	dialect chiefly (Brit) soot or smut
2.	colour that rubs off fabric

—vb
3.	dialect chiefly (Brit) (tr) to soil with or as if with soot
4.	(intr) (of a dyed fabric) to release colour when rubbed, as a result of imperfect dyeing

[C17: probably from crock¹]

crocked (krɒkt)

—*adj*
1.	(Brit) injured
2.	(US), (Canadian) drunk

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Word Origin & History

crock

O.E. crocc, crocca "pot," from P.Gmc. *krogu "pitcher, pot." Used as an image of worthless rubbish since 19c., perhaps from the use of crockery as chamberpots.

Slang Dictionary

crock definition

n.
nonsense. (From crock (of shit).) : What a crock! You don't know what you are talking about!
n.
a drunkard. : Give the old crock some money, anything to get him outa here before he barfs or something.

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crock (of shit) definition

n.
a mass of lies and deception worth no more than dung. (Usually objectionable.) : That's nothing but a crock of shit! I don't believe a word of it.
n.
a person who tells lies. (Rude and derogatory.) : He's just a crock of shit. He never tells the truth.
n.
a braggart. (Rude and derogatory.) : He's such a crock. He makes everything he has done sound ten times better than it really is.

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crocked definition

[krɑkt]

mod.
alcohol intoxicated. : Oh, my God! You're crocked again!

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The crocked duo are sidelined with hamstring strains and although the diagnosis is positive they could be out for up to two weeks.

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"This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolate region. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before. It was covered with charred trunks, either prostrate or standing, which crocked our clothes and hands, and we could not easily have distinguished a bear there by his color. Great shells of trees, sometimes unburnt without, or burnt on one side only, but black within, stood twenty or forty feet high. The fire had run up inside, as in a chimney, leaving the sap-wood. Sometimes we crossed a rocky ravine fifty feet wide, on a fallen trunk; and there were great fields of fire-weed (Epilobium angustifolium) on all sides, the most extensive that I ever saw, which presented great masses of pink. Intermixed with these were blueberry and raspberry bushes."

-Henry David Thoreau