Definitions for crocked

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Spelling: [krokt]

IPA: /krɒkt/

Crocked is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in crocked (ccdekor).

Definitions for crocked

noun

1. a person or thing that is old, decrepit, or broken-down.
2. Slang. a person who complains about or insists on being treated for an imagined illness.
3. an old ewe.
4. an old worn-out horse.
5. British Dialect. soot; smut.
6. excess surface dye from imperfectly dyed cloth.

adjective

1. drunk.

verb (used with object)

1. British Slang. to disable or injure.
2. British Dialect. to soil with soot.

verb (used without object)

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

Origin of crocked

An Americanism dating back to 1925-30; crock² + -ed²

Examples for crocked

Personally, I cant do much, because mother has crocked up and Ive got to run the Deanery.

Poor Balfour was awfully lonely after Chamberlain crocked up.

Yes, but he's crocked—stiff leg—so he hunts on wheels—follows in a dog-cart.

His grandfather was crocked, his father too, and he's as bad.

We had our limbers and waggons chock full o' details—fellers who'd been wounded or crocked up.

Well, is it all rot, or did you—­you know what I mean—­sham a crocked wrist?

Is this some of the vintage you crocked poor old Hinton with?

They jostled and crocked against one another, rolled over and stopped.

The dog did not look at her, but crocked under him the leg that had been stiff like a ramrod and spread out another.

The dusk of evening had fallen and crocked the white marble and blurred the lettered legends around us.