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slock

/slɒk/

slock noun: a draught; a gulp.

Noun (1)

slock (plural slocks)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A draught; a gulp.
    • A slock of wine.
    • Nothing like a slock of cake on a chilly evening, is there?1935, Howard Lindsay, She Loves Me Not: A Comedy in Two Acts: Dramatized from Edward Hope’s Novel, French’s standard library edition, New York, N.Y.; Los Angeles, Calif.: Samuel French, Inc., →OCLC...

Verb (1)

slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To swallow, gulp.

Verb (2)

slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)

  1. (West-Country, obsolete, slang, transitive) To poach (a servant) from another household.
  2. (Cornwall, transitive) To entice.
    • We were slocked there ourselves, an' we should ha' ben kidnapp'd too, ef it hadn ben for that young wumman.1862, William Bentinck Forfar, Pengersick Castle: a Cornish Tale, page 82
    • A boy who is tempted to play truant by another, will say that he has been "slocked" into his misbehaviour.1884, Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary (volume 9, page 220)

Noun (2)

slock (plural slocks)

  1. (US, slang) An improvised weapon consisting of a padlock placed in a sock, common in prison environments.

Verb (3)

slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)

  1. (US, slang) To strike with a slock.

Verb (4)

slock (third-person singular simple present slocks, present participle slocking, simple past and past participle slocked)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To hunt (wild game) with preindustrial tools such as spears, blowguns, slingshots, arrows, crossbows, or others.

Forms of slock

Noun
pluralslocks
Verb
third-person singular presentslocks
present participleslocking
past participleslocked
pastslocked

Origin of slock

Cognate with German Schluck (“a draught; a gulp”), Dutch slok (“a draught; a gulp”).

Blend of sock + lock.

Coined or popularized by Tim Wells, who is widely known among hunters for this style of hunting.

Words formed from slock

Words that rhyme with slock

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Questions about slock

What does slock mean?
Slock means a draught; a gulp.
What part of speech is slock?
Slock can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce slock?
Slock is pronounced /slɒk/.
What is the plural of slock?
The plural of slock is slocks.

Words near slock in the dictionary

  1. SLOC
  2. SLOcal
  3. Slocan
  4. Slocan City
  5. Slochd
  6. slock
  7. slocked
  8. slocken
  9. slockened
  10. slockening
  11. slockens

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