Word: socked
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...gasp of suspense, he has fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...
Last week Mr. Green, professing to have learned, from Reporter Lamb's story, of Sock's reemergence, dispatched a telegram to A. F. of L. executives in Manhattan instructing them to revoke the charter of Local 16,975 unless Socks Lanza was dropped forthwith from its payroll...
Etonians use relatively little slang, get most of it from Latin. Some Etonisms: bumble (small beer with raisins), furk (an illegal football kick), lush (sweets), nant (a swimmer), pec (money-from pe-cunia), Pop (famed Eton society, from popina, a cookshop, where meetings were originally held), sock...
...supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...home and look up the correct answers.' Then you can decide who will get the sock...