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crocked

[krokt]

Origin

adjective Slang.

drunk.

Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; crock² + -ed²

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noun

a person or thing that is old, decrepit, or broken-down.

Slang. a person who complains about or insists on being treated for an imagined illness.

an old ewe.

an old worn-out horse.

verb (used with object)

British Slang. to disable or injure.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English crok old ewe, perhaps akin to crack (v.) and obsolete crack whore; compare Low German krakke broken-down horse

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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World English Dictionary

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 (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.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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crocked definition

[krɑkt]

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

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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

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