Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Intoxicated; drunk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective slang drunk, inebriated. Opposite of
sober .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crock . - adjective UK
injured (of a person) - adjective UK
broken (of a thing) - adjective North America
drunk (of a person)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very drunk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was very heavy and not very warm, orna - mented with a showy pattern in black disks, and trimmed around the collar and the edges with some kind of black wool that "crocked" badly in snow or rain.
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It was very heavy and not very warm, ornamented with a showy pattern in black disks, and trimmed around the collar and the edges with some kind of black wool that "crocked" badly in snow or rain.
The song of the lark 1915
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It was very heavy and not very warm, ornamented with a showy pattern in black disks, and trimmed around the collar and the edges with some kind of black wool that "crocked" badly in snow or rain.
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Heads Up to the Feds: Tom Delay will be on Dancing with the Stars (a crocked wanabe one in this case).
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I also know white people there that will say they hurt their backs and get crocked lawyer and doctor and about a year later they will throw away the cane and those that know him will say he got his social security supplemental income check he threw away the cane and laugh about it when they know it was a farce.
Bill Clinton weighs in on charges of racism against Obama 2009
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Europe could have been organised around floating exchange rates rather than a single currency, but the vast overhang of private debt alongside crocked banks demands similar medicine.
There is only one alternative to the euro's survival: catastrophe 2011
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A Christian religious fanatic deliberately crocked the deal by leading a noisy pirate raid on Mecca.
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In the crocked world of politics, sometimes people develope a concious and I do believe this is the case.
Ridge condemned for trying to profit from terror alert assertions 2009
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Leaning against a wall in the weighing room after his last ride, he played down the threat of that fall, saying he knew immediately that he had not been crocked again.
Ruby Walsh grabs a victory to prove readiness for Cheltenham Festival 2011
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I assume that he means just in case a bottle is corked — not that he and his wife plan to get crocked.
No License, No Worry Here Lettie Teague 2011
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