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crock noun- an unpleasant or worthless person, object or experience; a waste of time US, 1944
Contemptuously abbreviated from the familiar CROCK OF SHIT- Your ideas are a crock, I added to myself. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 72, 1958
- We may all know that Sensira are a crock, yeah? But the fact at the moment is that the country likes them. — Kevin Sampson, Powder, p. 126, 1999
- an old and worn-out person or thing UK, 1889
- It’s the old crocks’ house you want to put him up at. — Troy Kennedy Martin, Z Cars, p. 82, 1962
- a person with medical problems that are the result of abusive living US
- — Maledicta, p. 68, Summer/Winter 1978: “Common patient-directed pejoratives used by medical personnel”
- a computer program that normally functions but fails if modified at all US
- — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 50, 1983
- nonsense US
An abbreviation of CROCK OF SHIT- “Now what kind of crock are you giving us?” No crock. It’s every word gospel. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 297, 1962
- “Now, that’s a crock,” the kid said, cocking his head insolently. — Malcolm Braly, It’s Cold Out There, p. 37, 1966
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