sock

Speech parts

1. sock - Noun

2. sock - Adjective

3. sock - Verb

4. sock - Interjection

Meaning

A plowshare.

The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.

A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

A warm inner sole for a shoe.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bash bop drogue whop whap bonk windsock wind cone wind sleeve lam wham argyle biff welt swat
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Antonyms

garrison guard hat cover police protect
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Hypernyms

hosiery hit hose visual signal

Hyponyms

argyll argyle anklet knee-high bobbysocks bobbysock

Phrases with the word

put a sock in it grippy sock hotel grippy sock jail wring out one's sock put a sock on it varsity sock

Examples

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks. Albert Einstein

Never put a sock in a toaster. Eddie Izzard

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed. Bertrand Russell

After six years of working on low-budget independent films of the too-weird-to-watch variety, being asked by DreamWorks to come and play with the big boys, it was like finding an unicorn in your sock drawer. Sienna Guillory

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov

Where the scythe cuts and the sock rives, no more fairies and bee-hives. Gypsy Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sociotropy sociotype socius sock and buskin sock away sock cap