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sock verb- to hit or thrash someone UK, 1700
- “Why should he sock you?” the lawyer asked. “Why shouldn’t he sock me? I was butting in his business, wasn’t I?” — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 116, 1957
- She screams and pops the cross in her mouth and clinches her eyes shut like she’s about to get socked[.] — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 80, 1962
- “Sock both of the bastards in the Hole!” the warden growled[.] — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 167, 1985
- How about the other place, where you socked the guy? — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 10, 1991
- to place something somewhere; to hide something US, 1942
- I don’t know why they sock so much dough in coats when they spend nine-tenths of their time in bed. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 352, 1953
- used for conveying encouragement and support US
- Go Fidel! Do your thing! Sock it to ’em! — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 14, 1968
- (of a male) to have sex US
- Dangerously I was frantic to sock “it” into every young girl weak enough to go for it. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 31, 1969
▶ sock it to to attack someone, literally or figuratively US- Flatter ’em first. Now sock it to her. — Max Shulman, The Zebra Derby, p. 104, 1946
▶ sock it to someone to have sex with a woman US, 1969- Jesus, look at the old bull socking it to her, and she just lies there with a grin on her face. — Lawrence Block, No Score [The Affairs of Chip Harrison Omnibus], p. 115, 1970
- We got in bed and as bad as I wanted to sock it to her, I didn’t. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 150, 1973
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