Meaning & use
sock
A piece of clothing made to cover the foot and lower leg, worn inside a shoe.
See it in a sentence
He pulled on a warm wool sock before putting on his winter boots.
One sock always seems to go missing in the wash somehow.
A note on using this word
The informal command 'sock someone' as a verb means to hit forcefully, unrelated to the clothing sense.
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