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Sock in   Listen
verb
Sock in  v. t.  To cause (an airport) to cease functioning, by severe weather conditions, such as fog or a snowstorm. Used often in the passive; the airport was socked in for two days by a blizzard.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sock in" Quotes from Famous Books



... or twelve cows and knit a whole sock in one day. They also wove the material for their ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves: Indiana Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... Scood, pushing off his shoes, and then setting to work to rid himself of his coarse grey socks, as if he were skinning his lower extremities, after which he grumpily began to load his shoes as if they were mortars, by ramming a rolled-up-ball-like sock in each. ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn



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