Meaning

(countable) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
2. (countable) A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
3. (UK, slang, countable) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
4. (UK, countable, slang) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
5. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
6. (countable) A low stool.
7. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
8. To break something or injure someone.

Example Sentences

1590-96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, 1750, The Works of Spenser, Volume 3, page 181, Therefore the Vulgar did about him flock / And cluster thick unto his leaſings vain; / Like fooliſh Flies about an Honey-Crock; / In hope by him great Benefit to gain, / And uncontrolled Freedom to obtain.

old crocks’ home

Girl: "Will you always be a bit of a crock?" Man: "According to my doctor, no." Girl: "I was afraid you looked bad-tempered because you were crocked up for life."

He was getting very proud of the way he had learned to manage his game leg, and it occurred to him that here was a chance of testing his balance. […] “Not so bad that, for a crock,” he told himself, as he lay full length in the sun watching the faint line of the Haripol hills overtopping the ridge of Crask.

He was in love with a girl, whose full name he did not tell me, and whom he had not seen for two years. She was a Lady Diana Someone, so much I knew, very lovely, a sort of relation, and he believed he had a chance if only the doctors could do something to help his asthma. “Can′t ask a girl to marry a crock.”

old crocks race

That's a bunch of crock.

The story is a crock.

Word Forms

• crocks
• crocking
• crocked

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