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sock-knocking

sock-knocking adjective: stunning, amazing, very impressive.

Adjective

sock-knocking (comparative more sock-knocking, superlative most sock-knocking)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, rare) stunning, amazing, very impressive.
    • Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems.2009, Frank Tinsman, Chaos and Rage, page 98

sock-knocking meaning in Bengali

sock-knocking in Bengali

অত্যাশ্চর্য, আশ্চর্যজনক, বা অত্যন্ত চিত্তাকর্ষক

Forms of sock-knocking

comparativemore sock-knocking
superlativemost sock-knocking

Origin of sock-knocking

From the phrase knock someone's socks off.

Questions about sock-knocking

What does sock-knocking mean?
Sock-knocking means stunning, amazing, very impressive.
What is sock-knocking in Bengali?
Sock-knocking in Bengali is অত্যাশ্চর্য, আশ্চর্যজনক, বা অত্যন্ত চিত্তাকর্ষক. See Sock-knocking meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is sock-knocking?
Sock-knocking is an adjective.

Words near sock-knocking in the dictionary

  1. sock puppeting
  2. sock puppetry
  3. sock puppets
  4. sock yarn
  5. sock yarns
  6. sock-knocking
  7. sock-shop
  8. sock-shops
  9. sockasin
  10. sockasins
  11. Sockbridge

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sock-knocking (page history and authors); sock-knocking (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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