sox
(sɒks)
commercial and informal spelling of socks, pl. of sock n.1
Also used as the final element in the names of some sports teams, esp. in U.S. Baseball.
| 1905 H. G. Wells Kipps i. ii. 37 He abbreviated every word he could; he would have considered himself the laughing-stock of Wood Street if he had chanced to spell socks in any way but ‘sox’. 1912 G. Frankau One of Us v. 41 To dollars deaf, impervious to invective, They plunged profaning hands in shirts and sox. 1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 88 Dat broad couldn't make the down payment on a pair of sox. 1948 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 11 June 27/1 The Boston Red Sox today socked the Cleveland Indians 15–7. 1965 Liberator Aug. 20/1 And Sweet Mac was there; legs crossed, showing his..two-fifty sox. 1977 West Briton 25 Aug. 17/7 (Advt.), Assorted nylon plain & fancy short sox. |