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Put a sock in it

Currently means "Be Quit" or "Shut up".

Originally meant "Turn the Volume down."

In the days before Electricity there was no Volume Control on a record player (Gramophone) so the only way to reduce the volume down was to "Put a sock" (Or other item) in the speaker to muffle it.
Two kids are playing noisily, and their Dad shouts at them "Put a sock in it you two, I am on the Phone!"
Put a sock in it by Dorsai December 21, 2010

Put a sock in it

I've clean my room,so put a sock in it.
Put a sock in it by BlackPohatu September 12, 2016

put a sock in it

Stop talking
Here's a sentence using "put a sock in it":

* The librarian shushed the chattering students, "Put a sock in it, everyone! Others are trying to read."

Put a sock in it! 

A jeering group-yell type of response to the 45th POTUS whom everyone finally now knows is entirely full of shit.
“Put a sock in it!“ yelled the crowd of blue-collar teamsters, all perfectly in unison, before he even opened his lying pie-hole.
Put a sock in it! by Dr Bunnygirl November 11, 2019

Put your cock in a sock and dock it on a rock 

A phrase that you say when someone is about to "DO IT."
"Dude, I'm gonna nail that chick later."

"Oh damn. Put your cock in a sock and dock it on a rock!"

"I'll make sure of it dog!"
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026