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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!"
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'
stove by anthony willison March 18, 2004
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