sock
verb/sɒk/
/sɑːk/
(informal)Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they sock | /sɒk/ /sɑːk/ |
| he / she / it socks | /sɒks/ /sɑːks/ |
| past simple socked | /sɒkt/ /sɑːkt/ |
| past participle socked | /sɒkt/ /sɑːkt/ |
| -ing form socking | /ˈsɒkɪŋ/ /ˈsɑːkɪŋ/ |
- sock somebody to hit somebody hard
- She got angry and socked him in the mouth.
- (figurative) The banks are socking customers with higher charges.
Word OriginOld English socc ‘light shoe’, of Germanic origin, from Latin soccus ‘comic actor's shoe, light low-heeled slipper’, from Greek sukkhos.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See sock in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarysock it to somebody
- (informal or humorous) to do something or tell somebody something in a strong and effective way
- Go in there and sock it to 'em!
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