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sox

  [soks] ,
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–noun
a pl. of sock 1 .
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sock

1  [sok]
–noun, plural socks or, for 1, also sox.
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.
—Idiom
5. knock one's or the socks off. knock (def. 29).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME socke, OE socc ≪ L soccus slipper

Related forms:
sockless, adjective
sock⋅less⋅ness, noun

sock

2  [sok] Slang.
–verb (used with object)
1. to strike or hit hard.
–noun
2. a hard blow.
3. a very successful show, performance, actor, etc.: The show was a sock.
–adjective
4. extremely successful: a sock performance.
—Verb phrases
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.
Origin:
1690–1700; orig. uncert.
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sock 1   (sŏk)   
n.  

  1. pl. socks or sox (sŏks) A short stocking reaching a point between the ankle and the knee.

  2. Meteorology A windsock.

    1. A light shoe worn by comic actors in ancient Greek and Roman plays.

    2. Comic drama; comedy: "He . . . knew all niceties of the sock and buskin" (Byron).

tr.v.   socked, sock·ing, socks
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.]
sox   (sŏks)   
n.  A plural of sock1.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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