| 释义 |
sockeroo slang (orig. U.S.).|ˌsɒkəˈruː|
[f. sock n.4 + -eroo.]
Something with an overwhelming impact, a ‘smash’.
1942Time 9 Nov. 77/2 The act was an old-fashioned Hippodrome sockeroo. 1943Sat. Rev. Lit. 18 Dec. 16/3 This program..was a boff, a wham, a sockeroo. 1964Spectator 7 Feb. 178 This latest box-office sockeroo also provides a modest example of the industry's throat-cutting activities. 1977Daily Tel. 22 Apr. 13 The Royal Court's new régime opens with a great loud sockeroo of a play, a thumping American drama of a divided family, rich in purple prose and loaded with gutsy symbolism. |