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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

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!"
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Along with Nixon’s other ratfuckers, Roger Stone caused fights at otherwise peaceful Democratic Party protests to generate a false narrative that the Democrats were violent and dangerous.
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countrypolitan 

Term used to describe someone who is a mix of both rural (country) and urban (metropolitan) lifestyles/upbringings. He/she is typically equally comfortable in both settings and is able to seamlessly slip back and forth between the two, appreciating the characteristics of each.
That ol' gal of mine drives the 12 lane freeway during the week and a John Deere on the weekends. She likes opra and the Grand Ol' Opry. I love them countrypolitan women.
countrypolitan by MOChick November 7, 2006
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