noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ knee , knee-high , long
▪ ankle ( esp. BrE ), short
▪ thick , thin
▪ white
▪ athletic , gym , sweat , tube (all AmE )
▪
a pair of white tube ~s
▪ sports ( BrE )
▪ argyle , bobby
▪ dress
▪ cotton
▪ wool ( esp. AmE ), woollen/woolen , woolly/wooly ( esp. BrE )
▪ clean , dirty
▪ old , smelly
▪ mismatched ( AmE ), odd ( BrE )
▪
He wore odd ~s, one red and one yellow.
… OF SOCKS
▪ pair
VERB + SOCK
▪ pull on , pull up
▪ pull off
▪ knit
▪ darn , mend ( esp. BrE )
▪
He darned his own ~s.
SOCK + NOUN
▪ drawer
▪ puppet ( esp. AmE , often figurative )
▪
He is a man of integrity, not a ~ puppet taking orders from above.