crew sock

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noun

Usually crew socks . short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Origin of crew sock

First recorded in 1945–50

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J Crew did not give back the money it incidentally made off of Mrs. Obama.
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Crew members had to cut through the ice on the streets to get shots.
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I asked whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air about the time he first discovered me?
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
It was well that Monsieur de Biancourt was wiser than many of his crew, whose sole cry was to kill them all.
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The boy was hurt; my heart went out to him, for the memory of my own sock-ball and tickley-bender days came back to me.
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"I was playin' sock-ball," snuffled the boy, and a solitary tear rolled down his snub nose.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
Three days after we left the port, a discovery was made of another addition to the number of the crew.
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