Definitions for socks

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Spelling: [sok]

IPA: /sɒk/

Socks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in socks (ckoss).

Definitions for socks

noun

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. sock puppet (def 3).
6. a hard blow.
7. a very successful show, performance, actor, etc.:

Idioms

1. knock one's / the socks off. knock (def 29).

adjective

1. extremely successful:

Verb phrases

1. sock away, to put into savings or reserve.
2. sock in, to close or ground because of adverse weather conditions:

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or hit hard.

Origin of socks

before 900; Middle English socke, Old English socc ≪ Latin soccus slipper

Examples for socks

He derived enormous satisfaction from some customers choosing to base the rest of their wardrobe around his socks.

This gives Nagrani greater satisfaction than to have Esquire last year crown his socks “the best in the world”.

And now I haven't a thing, not a handkerchief, not a pair of socks!

And about how to keep Katie in order about your socks, and all sorts of things.

The minister's clothes were mended and his socks darned as they had not been since his mother's day.

Mike, on her opposite arm, was struggling to lave his socks in it.

I got a chance to see this man in his office and present him with these socks.

Melchior is the forerunner of the aunt who always gave me socks.

"The wife told me," said Marion, calmly, rolling up her socks.

He was so impressed by the socks that he invited me through my client to come and visit him.