Sock



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解释

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• v.重击, 痛打
• ［英］ v.重击, 痛打 ( to hit, strike, or apply forcefully)
• ［记］ sock作为""短袜""一意大家都熟悉
• ［例］ sock sb on the head ( 用拳头重击某人的头)

Webster Collegiate

kI. noun (plural socks)

• Etymology: Middle English socke, from Old English socc, from Latin soccus
• Date: before 12th century
• 1. archaic a low shoe or slipper
• 2. also plural sox a knitted or woven covering for the foot usually worn under shoes and extending above the ankle and sometimes to the knee
• 3.
  • a. a shoe worn by actors in Greek and Roman comedy
  • b. comic drama
• ? sockless adjective

II. verb

• Etymology: origin unknown
• Date: circa 1700
• transitive verb
  • to hit, strike, or apply forcefully <sock a home run><an area socked by a blizzard>
• intransitive verb
  • to deliver a blow ; hit

III. noun

• Date: circa 1700
• a vigorous or violent blow; also punch III,3

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