Sock-knocking

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    stunning, amazing, very impressive. idiomatic, informal, rare

    "Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems."

Example

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"Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems."

Etymology

From the phrase knock someone's socks off.

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