old crock

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• old crock —  Decrepit thing (usu. very old car). Decrepit person …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• crock — [[t]krɒ̱k[/t]] crocks 1) N COUNT A crock is a clay pot or jar. [OLD FASHIONED] ...an earthenware bread crock. 2) N COUNT If you describe someone as an old crock, you mean that they are old and weak. [BRIT, INFORMAL, OLD FASHIONED] But you don t… …   English dictionary

• crock — noun (C) 1 old use a clay pot 2 crocks (plural) a) BrE old fashioned plates, cups etc, especially made of baked clay b) pieces of broken earthenware (=baked clay) 3 spoken a crock of shit AmE taboo something that is unbelievable, unfair, untrue… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• crock — I. /krɒk / (say krok) noun 1. an earthen pot, jar, or other vessel. 2. a potsherd. 3. a piece of crockery (def. 2). 4. Also, crock of shit. Colloquial nonsense; rubbish. {Middle English crokke, Old English croc(c), crocca pot. Compare Icelandic… …  

• crock — 1. n. nonsense. (See also crock (of shit).) □ What a crock! You don’t know what you are talking about! □ This whole business is a crock. Hell, life’s a crock! 2. n. a drunkard. □ Give the old crock some money, anything to get him outa here before …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• crock —  1. Person or thing incapacitated by age or infirmity.  2. old crock Old car …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• old timer — Synonyms and related words: Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, ancient, antediluvian, antique, back number, centenarian, conservative, dad, dodo, dotard, elder, fogy, fossil, fud, fuddy duddy, gaffer, geezer, golden ager, gramps,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• old man — Synonyms and related words: Casanova, Don Juan, Father Time, Lothario, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, Romeo, abba, amoroso, antediluvian, antique, back number, beau, benedict, boyfriend, caballero, cavalier, cavaliere servente, centenarian,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• old woman — Synonyms and related words: Lord Fauntleroy, Methuselah, Percy, antediluvian, antique, back number, beldam, better half, chicken, common law wife, concubine, conservative, cream puff, crone, dad, dame, dodo, dowager, effeminate, elder, feme, feme …   Moby Thesaurus

• old fogy — Synonyms and related words: Methuselah, antediluvian, antique, back number, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, dad, diehard, dodo, dotard, elder, fogy, fogyish, fossil, fud, fuddy duddy, granny, has been, laudator temporis acti,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• crock — Ⅰ. crock [1] informal ► NOUN 1) an old person considered to be feeble and useless. 2) Brit. an old worn out vehicle. ► VERB 1) Brit. cause an injury to. 2) (crocked) N. Amer. drunk …   English terms dictionary