[sok] 
| 1. | a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle. |
| 2. | a lightweight shoe worn by ancient Greek and Roman comic actors. |
| 3. | comic writing for the theater; comedy or comic drama. Compare buskin (def. 4). |
| 4. | Furniture. a raised vertical area of a club or pad foot. |
| 5. | knock one's or the socks off. knock (def. 29). |
[sok] Slang.| 1. | to strike or hit hard. |
| 2. | a hard blow. |
| 3. | a very successful show, performance, actor, etc.: The show was a sock. |
| 4. | extremely successful: a sock performance. |
| 5. | sock away, to put into savings or reserve. |
| 6. | sock in, to close or ground because of adverse weather conditions: The airport was socked in. |
| sock 1 (sŏk) n.
To provide with socks. Phrasal Verb(s): sock away Informal To put (money) away in a safe place for future use. sock inTo close to air traffic: fog that socked in the airport. [Middle English socke, from Old English socc, a kind of light shoe, from Latin soccus, possibly from Greek sunkhis, sukkhos, Phrygian shoe.] |
| sock 2 (sŏk) v. socked, sock·ing, socks v. tr. To hit or strike forcefully; punch. v. intr. To deliver a blow. n. A hard blow or punch. [Origin unknown.] |
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