sock

1. 1.

   hit hard

   Synonymsbopwhopwhapbonkbash

   Broaderhit

Other forms of sock

plural

socks·

past tense

socked·

present participle

socking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sock

What does sock mean?

sock means "hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sock?

sock has 1 syllable: sock. In IPA it is /ˈsɑk/.

What is another word for sock?

Close synonyms include windsock, wind sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind sleeve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sock a common word?

sock is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.