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🙄 Nonsense 🍶 A clay pot ⚫ Black powder 🩸 To lose color
to crock

to crock

1 9.9
To lose color and stain other things when rubbed
  • verb
  • /krɒk/
  • Specialized
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  • After washing the shirt, I noticed it had started to crock and leave color on the other clothes.

Examples

  • I've had some bad luck with lamb suede crocking on me.

  • The poor quality of the dye caused the fabric to crock during the first wash.

  • If you don't set the dye properly, your jeans will crock and stain your skin.

Idioms

to call it a crock
  • Informal
9.5

To say that an idea is nonsense or not true

Compounds

Crock Pot
7 3.5

An electric pot that cooks food slowly at low heat

crock-pot
  • US
1 3.2

An electric pot that cooks food slowly for several hours

old crock
  • UK
1 9.2

A worn-out thing like a car or bike that is not worth much

crock-pot
  • US
3.4

A dish cooked slowly in a slow cooker

How Colorfast

colorfast
  • US
1 4.4
to crock
  • Specialized
1 9.9
to bleed
16 5.8

Surface Forms

crock infinitive
crocked past
crocked past participle
crocking present participle
crocks third person singular

Etymology

Crock as a verb, meaning to let colour rub off, comes from a special cloth-making use where rubbing causes dye to come out of the fabric, and a helpful image is colour 'rubbing' off like dust from a pot. That's why if a shirt will crock, it will lose dye and may stain other clothes.