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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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