The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sock in \Sock in\, v. t. to cause (an airport) to cease functioning, by severe weather conditions, such as fog or a snowstorm. Used often in the passive; the airport was socked in for two days by a blizzard.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To cause a temporary disruption of the operations of, usually an airport.
Usage examples of "sock in".
I would have spoken further, but at this point, after urging me to put a sock in it, and giving me a kindly word of warning not to step on any banana skins, she rang off.
Violent tendencies toward women, but a sock in the eye isn't mutilation.
The thirty-pound rodent had the sock in its mouth and was greedily chewing the salt out of its fibers, the salt from Boomer Petway's sweat.
Rincewind sidled towards the nearest Thing, holding Coin with one hand and swinging the loaded sock in the other.