Definitions for sock

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IPA: /sɒk/

Sock is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in sock (ckos).

Definitions for sock

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 sock

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

Examples for sock

Well, you could call it that, but the cop of the beach said it was more like a baby's sock.

Who welcome with the crowing of a cock, This hero of the buskin and sock.

Based on his sock puppet, I expected him to be a burly bearded giant clad in plaid—basically, a Canadian Paul Bunyan.

A food court in a suburban mall seemed like a good place to meet Ed the sock.

But how was this difficult matter of sock and stocking to be settled?

Still, Ed the sock is more active on Twitter these days, where he has more than 14 thousand followers.

At least we could never finish a sock unless Mother helped us, and then she would know.

The duo first met in 1997 when Kerzner was playing Ed the sock live.

Two and a half years ago this was just a sock, underwear and a lounge kind of company.

Jim's mother looked thoughtfully at the sock she was darning.