Definitions for sox

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Spelling: [soks]

IPA: /sɒks/

Sox is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 7 anagrams from letters in sox (osx).

Definitions for sox

noun

1. a plural of sock1 .
2. a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle.
3. a lightweight shoe worn by ancient Greek and Roman comic actors.
4. comic writing for the theater; comedy or comic drama. Compare buskin (def 4).
5. Furniture. a raised vertical area of a club or pad foot.
6. sock puppet (def 3).
7. a hard blow.
8. 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 sox

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

Examples for sox

"You bet your sox," yelled the strange voice, in chorus with other shouts of approval.

The commonest kind of sense teaches one that the old lady is in error, and "sox" clearly correct.

Dauss was infected with the same Andrew Carnegie spirit and issued another pass, forcing the sox to make a tally.

With him out of the way it would be a walk-over for the sox.

Id like to have made it a goose egg for the sox, responded Larry.

And as sox flew back to his perch, Peter continued: “How far down did you leave your ponies, boys?”

His final season with the sox, in 2008, devolved into melodrama.

He was afraid of me; or, to speak more correctly, he was afraid of sox—the one single thing on earth of which he was afraid.

For a handy guide to the variety of facial hair grown by the sox, head over to The Week.

There's a white shirt and a collar and two pairs of sox, and what not, in there.