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1. Hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee
    
2. A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
   - windsock, wind sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind sleeve, wind cone, drogue
    
3. A vigorous blow
   - knock, bash, bang, smash, belt

1. Hit hard
   "The teacher socked the boy";
   - bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash, whack, wham, wallop, clock [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: socking, socks, socked

Type of: blow, bump, hit, hose [Brit], hosiery [Brit, Cdn], visual signal

Encyclopedia: Sock