WordNet
athletic sock
n. a sock worn for athletic events [syn: sweat sock, varsity sock]
Usage examples of "athletic sock".
Pulling strips of adhesive tape off the kid's face, prying a red rubber ball from the pale-lipped mouth, Dylan vividly recalled being helpless in the motel-room chair, remembered gagging on the athletic sock, and he discovered in himself a settled anger like long-banked coals ready to flare white-hot when fanned by one breath of righteous outrage.
The remains of an athletic sock, grimed with dirt and blood, flapped from his left ankle.
What had been easy, uncomplicated breath only seconds before was a clogged athletic sock in his throat, something he could neither push out nor suck in.