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sock-shops

sock-shops is the plural of sock-shop.

Meaning of sock-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)

Questions about sock-shops

What is sock-shops the plural of?
Sock-shops is the plural of sock-shop.

Words near sock-shops in the dictionary

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

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