sock

Definition

  • noun: a piece of clothing that is worn on your foot and that covers your ankle and sometimes the lower part of your leg
  • noun: a low shoe or slipper
  • verb: to hit (someone or something) hard
  • verb: to hit, strike, or apply forcefully
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: plowshare, half hose

Examples

  • Legislators are getting ready to 'sock it to' homeowners with high property tax increases.

  • This song will 'knock your socks off'. [=you will enjoy this song very much]

  • My father had been 'socking away' money since I was a young boy.

Movie quotes

  • (..) I've known is here with me now. So I'll go with you, and I won't whine, and I'll sew your socks, and I'll stitch you when you're wounded, and I'll do anything you ask of me except one thing. (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid