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sock
noun- a blow, physical or figurative UK, 1700
- [A] riveting finish and a sock in the eye for the self-deluding hosts. — The Guardian, 25 March 2003
- a condom US
- — Judi Sanders, Kickin’ like Chicken with the Couch Commander, p. 22, 1992
- I know of some children who have come to see us for condoms and when I ask them they say they are using it because they go out with men who come to pick them up. They call condoms socks, she said. — Fiji Times, p. 1, 29 October 1999
▶ put a sock in it
to stop talking UK, 1919
Usually as an imperative.- The gods are like us, only more so [...] their passion is far less bridled than ours. They don’t know how to put a sock in it, and they see no logic in reason. — New Statesman, 23 March 1997
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