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• a garment for the foot and lower part of the leg, typically knitted from wool, cotton, or nylon.

• a hard blow.

• "a sock on the jaw"

• hit forcefully.

• "Jess socked his father across the face"

Origin: Old English socc ‘light shoe’, of Germanic origin, from Latin soccus ‘comic actor's shoe, light low-heeled slipper’, from Greek sukkhos .

• used as an expression of endearment.
"she's still very under the weather, bless her cotton socks"

• amaze or impress someone.
"this dish will knock your socks off!"

• surpass or beat.

• do something with great energy and enthusiasm.
"she acted her socks off"

• make an effort to improve one's work, performance, or behaviour.

• stop talking.

• the theatrical profession; drama.

• attack or make a forceful impression on someone.

• put money aside as savings.
"you'll need to sock away about $900 a month"

• be enveloped or made impassable by inhospitable weather conditions.
"the beach was socked in with fog"

• affect someone with something disadvantageous.
"consumers have been socked with huge price increases"