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sock-shop

sock-shop noun: a tuck shop.

Noun

sock-shop (plural sock-shops)

  1. (slang, Eton College) A tuck shop.
    • No wonder that the old Etonian's heart still warms when he catches sight of the walls of College […] Windsor Bridge, Mother Tolliday, […] the "ticks-up-town," the sock-shop, the triumphs on the water, won with sculls and oar […]1900, George John Whyte-Melville, Sir Herbert Maxwell, The Works of G. J. Whyte-Melville (volume 14, page 2)

Forms of sock-shop

pluralsock-shops

Origin of sock-shop

Hotten's Slang Dictionary gives sock as "the Eton College term for a treat […] believed to be derived from the monkish word soke."

Questions about sock-shop

What does sock-shop mean?
Sock-shop means a tuck shop.
What part of speech is sock-shop?
Sock-shop is a noun.
What is the plural of sock-shop?
The plural of sock-shop is sock-shops.

Words near sock-shop in the dictionary

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

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