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socks
noun
a linear amplifier for a citizens’ band radio US
From the term FOOTWARMER— Porter Bibb, CB Bible, p. 105, 1976▶ give socks
to copulate IRELAND- For three days and nights he gave her socks and a reliable source informed me afterwards that it took three vets and a female member of the Knights of Malta to wipe the smile off her face. — Billy Roche, Tumbling Down, p. 40, 1984
▶ your socks off
with great effect; with great commitment UK- Brando acts his socks off (and it looks like he’s put them in his mouth) playing the head of a mob family. — Dave Courtney, Dodgy Dave’s Little Black Book, p. 45, 2001
- From there he [Terry Pratchett] went on to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke, stuff that would “blow [his] socks off”, and feed a child’s “delight in the strangeness of the universe”. — The Guardian, 8 November 2002
- He was very angry. He hated it, it wasn’t fair, he worked his socks off for years. — The Guardian, 1 September 2003
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