(HIT) [verb] [T] [dated] [slang] - to hit (someone) with your fistHe socked the policeman on the jaw/in the eye.(US) In baseball, if you sock the ball you hit it very powerfully.Remember the game when Reggie socked three homers in three at-bats?
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Meaning of SOCK in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012