as in garbage
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
that whole thing about how surprised she was to win the award was a crock
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Recent Examples of crock
Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
Keep on low heat in a crock pot or on the stove top with a ladle to keep warm.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
Beren Cross, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2024
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Noun
Display them with simple white dishes and a crock filled with vintage rolling pins.
—Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
Keep on low heat in a crock pot or on the stove top with a ladle to keep warm.
—Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
But which No 9 good enough to lead a Premier League promotion chase is going to come to Leeds this month and sit on the bench waiting for the Dutchman to get crocked?
Farke has mentioned Gnonto as an emergency striker option, if needed.
—Beren Cross, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Store indigo garments together or wrap them in tissue to avoid crocking.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crock
Noun
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Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.—
Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Leaving her alone all morning, and just when something decent is happening, messing it up.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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European leaders have messed it up in the last three years.—
Peter Aitken,
Newsweek,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Describing the plot as utter nonsense would both be 100 percent correct and likely taken as a massive compliment for all involved.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Mar. 2025
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For Guy, using systems like Kibbe’s to guide your dress choices can mean making nonsense out of your clothes’ cultural grammar, especially in the rigidly codified world of menswear.—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
6 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
Noun
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The property also grows its own herbs, greens, nuts, berries, and edible flowers.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Focus on whole foods like fruits, leafy green vegetables, fatty fish, nuts, and seeds.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
5 Jan. 2025
Verb
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With three laps to go, Rhodes overtook Bayley Currey, commanding a lead while the rest of the field jumbled up three-wide behind him.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Feb. 2025
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Together these buildings trace the contours of change in the city, its history jumbled out of order on a slightly shabby street.—
Francesca Carington,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This dumping exacts a devastating environmental toll—leaching toxic contaminants into water, air, and food, and miring whole regions in growing fields of rubbish.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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This includes brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The lack of clarity over strategy would be a concern for Hamilton, given Ferrari have developed an unhealthy reputation for muddling their decisions over the past few seasons.—
Dan Cancian,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Certainly, McKinney is trying to provoke; she may also be muddled.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Crock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crock. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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