sock sth/sb in (with sb)
— phrasal verb with sock uk/sɒk/us/sɑːk/verb [ T ]
US to stop all travel or movement of vehicles in an area because of bad weather:
The entire coast was socked in all week with fog.
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On the road: traffic jams
- back
- back up
- backed up
- bottleneck
- bumper
- bumper to bumper idiom
- congested
- gridlock
- jam
- rasta roko
- rush hour
- snarled up
- sock
- tail
- tail back
- tailback
- traffic
- traffic calming
- traffic jam
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Describing bad weather