ALL meanings of crock
crock
C c - countable noun crock A crock is a clay pot or jar. 3
- countable noun crock If you describe someone as an old crock, you mean that they are old and weak. 3
- countable noun crock If you describe what someone has said as a crock, you mean that you think it is foolish, wrong, or untrue. 3
- noun crock an earthen pot, jar, etc 3
- noun crock a piece of broken earthenware 3
- noun crock a quantity or source of lies or nonsense 3
- noun crock a person or thing, such as a car, that is old or decrepit (esp in the phrase old crock) 3
- noun crock an old broken-down horse or ewe 3
- verb crock to become or cause to become weak or disabled 3
- noun crock soot or smut 3
- noun crock colour that rubs off fabric 3
- verb crock to soil with or as if with soot 3
- verb crock (of a dyed fabric) to release colour when rubbed, as a result of imperfect dyeing 3
- noun crock an earthenware pot or jar 3
- noun crock a broken piece of earthenware 3
- noun crock something that is absurd, insincere, exaggerated, etc.; nonsense 3
- noun crock soot; smut 3
- noun crock coloring matter rubbed off from dyed fabric 3
- verb transitive crock to soil with soot or smut 3
- intransitive verb crock to give off coloring matter 3
- noun crock an old broken-down horse 3
- noun crock anyone or anything worthless, useless, or worn-out, as from old age 3
- noun crock a medical patient who complains chronically about his minor or imaginary illnesses 3
- intransitive verb crock to make or become disabled; break down; collapse 3
- noun Technical meaning of crock [American scatologism "crock of shit"] 1. An awkward feature or programming technique that ought to be made cleaner. For example, using small integers to represent error codes without the program interpreting them to the user (as in, for example, Unix "make(1)", which returns code 139 for a process that dies due to segfault). 2. A technique that works acceptably, but which is quite prone to failure if disturbed in the least. For example, a too-clever programmer might write an assembler which mapped instruction mnemonics to numeric opcodes algorithmically, a trick which depends far too intimately on the particular bit patterns of the opcodes. (For another example of programming with a dependence on actual opcode values, see The Story of Mel.) Many crocks have a tightly woven, almost completely unmodifiable structure. See kluge, brittle. The adjectives "crockish" and "crocky", and the nouns "crockishness" and "crockitude", are also used. 1
- noun crock a lie; exaggeration; nonsense: The entire story is just a crock. 1
- verb with object crock British Dialect. to soil with soot. 1
- verb without object crock (of cloth) to give off excess surface dye when rubbed. 1
- noun crock clay pot 1
- noun crock nonsense 1
- noun crock old person 1
- noun crock old delapidated car 1
- transitive verb crock disable 1
- noun crock An earthenware pot or jar. 1
- noun crock A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. 0
- noun crock A piece of broken pottery, a shard. 0
- noun crock (Britain) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. 0
- noun crock (Britain) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse). 0
- noun crock (Slang) (countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. 0
- noun crock A low stool. 0
- noun crock The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut. 0
- noun crock Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth. 0
- verb crock To break something or injure someone. 0
- verb crock (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another. 0
- verb crock (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage. 0
- verb crock (Transitive Verb) To store (butter, etc.) in a crock. 0
- verb crock (Intransitive Verb) To give off crock or smut. 0