sock-knocking

English

Etymology

From the phrase knock someone's socks off.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

sock-knocking (comparative more sock-knocking, superlative most sock-knocking)

1. (idiomatic, rare, informal) stunning, amazing, very impressive.
   • 2009, Frank Tinsman, Chaos and Rage, page 98:

     Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems.