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
Caitlin Shetterly, NPR, 7 May 2025
Other appliances like toaster ovens, air fryers, and crock pots also pose a safety risk (especially if they’re not cleaned properly after use).
—Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
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
After two more storytellers, the evening starts to wind down and people are pulling on coats and gathering their ladles and crock pots.
—Caitlin Shetterly, NPR, 7 May 2025
Other appliances like toaster ovens, air fryers, and crock pots also pose a safety risk (especially if they’re not cleaned properly after use).
—Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Apr. 2025
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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Duluth, Minnesota, has installed effective and unobtrusive signs at each beach entrance next to a garbage receptacle.—
John Michael Pierobon,
Sun Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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Allegiance The Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, regroups on the garbage planet Anoat, while Finn and Poe go on a secret mission to retrieve a weapons cache to increase their dwindling arsenal.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
25 May 2025
Verb
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And to fill that space, fill it beautifully, not take up that space and mess it up in a sense.—
Danielle Pointdujour,
Essence,
23 May 2025
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Our frail nature, damaged by our propensity to mess things up, stands in need of grace and salvation.—
Anna Rowlands,
Time,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Beyond that, the show is mostly content to amble along, loping toward the green and from time to time indulging in odd bits of nonsense.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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Yet Towns has proven, one moment at a time, that reputation, that narrative is a bunch of nonsense.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
31 May 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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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
Noun
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Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.—
Nora Colomer,
FOXNews.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Narratively, Bogart jumbles the order of events by having the pair marry prior to the Capulet Ball, and tweaks the climax in a familiar way purely for sequel-baiting.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
8 May 2025
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More news: 'Drained Joy,' NBA Insider Reveals Insane Details on Michael Malone Firing The Eastern Conference is a bit less jumbled up, and more will come down to the final day of the season, with four teams fighting for seeds three through six and three teams fighting for seeds eight through 10.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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This never got past the drawing board stage, but the idea kept cropping up again and again with many variations on a circular shape and performance that spanned from interesting to rubbish.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Time and again, TV Ellie feels weirdly neutered by the writing, her motivations and characterization oddly muddled and inconsistent.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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His passable ensemble wisely included a pedal-steel guitarist and violinist, yet the mix muddled their contributions on an abundance of mid- and high-tempo material.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2025
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“Crock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crock. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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