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- verb   Simple past tense and past participle of sock .
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Examples
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								Hi Trupti, you guys really got "socked" up there!! Snowed In....and a Spinach Medley Cardamom 2007 
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								And then came up behind the storm and we have been searching for a lot of individuals on the coast and the flooded areas and just doing a lot of MEDEVACS from hospitals and evacuation sites that are kind of socked in by water. 
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								A: Your wise message needs to be "socked" home to everyone who sets out to change another person to suit him or herself. 
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								This is the kind of socked in rain that causes flooding to low lying areas - and we've already had plenty of that from Gustav. Beyond Katrina 2008 
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								The fuel cost uncertainty has socked airline stocks. Airlines Brace for Increases in Jet-Fuel Prices Timothy W. Martin 2011 
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								Since 2008, they have been socked with staggering new bills for bank bailouts and hammered by a Great Recession brought on by the very same banks. Lynn Parramore: Amity Shlaes's Forgotten History: When Unions Go Bust, We All Do Lynn Parramore 2011 
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								But our first night at the telescope was cloud covered—actually, was socked in and packing knock-you-down wind from a cyclone on the eastern coast—so instead of observing, we talked. First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011 
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								China added $200 billion to that stockpile in the last three months of the year alone, as the country socked away capital from the rest of the world at a torrid pace. Wonkbook: NCLB reform coming; Boehner opposes new gun laws; John Kerry's speech; oil spill recommendations Ezra Klein 2011 
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								Six crime novels later, I've come to accept that my great grandfather, who apparently had a liquor beef go up to the New Jersey State Supreme Court during Prohibition, was not a financial wizard who socked away a stash in Switzerland but, for a long time, it was really cool to think so. Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010 
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								Six crime novels later, I've come to accept that my great grandfather, who apparently had a liquor beef go up to the New Jersey State Supreme Court during Prohibition, was not a financial wizard who socked away a stash in Switzerland but, for a long time, it was really cool to think so. Eric Dezenhall: Waiting for Lucky Luciano Eric Dezenhall 2010 
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