crock

Plural: crocks

Noun

• a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
• nonsense; foolish talk
  • "that's a crock"
• an earthen jar (made of baked clay)
• A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
• A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
• A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
• An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
• Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
• A low stool.
• A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
• The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.
• Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.

Verb

Verb Forms: crocked, crocking, crocks

• To stain or soil with color that rubs off.
• release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
• soil with or as with crock
• To break something or injure someone.
• To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
• To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
• To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
• To give off crock or smut.

Examples

• He worried his shaky hand might CROCK the pristine Scrabble tiles.
• old crocks race
• old crocks’ home
• That's a bunch of crock.
• The story is a crock.

Synonyms

carbon black, earthenware jar, lampblack, smut, soot, banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crock, flivver, hooptie, jalopy, junker, lemon, old banger, rattletrap, rustbucket, shed, shitbox, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, tin Lizzie, wreck

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