crocked
Americanadjective
adjective
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injured
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drunk
Etymology
Origin of crocked
Example Sentences
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Just the one change in personnel for France after their Ireland win as Jonathan Danty replaces the crocked Gabin Villiere in the starting XV.
From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2022
Portland host San Jose after poor showing against Dallas All of which meant Portland went into their midweek game against Dallas without their crocked midfielder – and how they missed him.
From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2016
Whatever the Westminster orthodoxy, under such a crocked system ownership matters.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2013
Star players crocked, headlines written, physios' diagnoses followed up.
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2013
That afternoon I crocked my leg at footer and have been a hobbler ever since with first an elephantine calf and now a watery knee, which however, like the Tigris, gets less watery daily.
From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur
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