1. An earthen jar (made of baked clay)
   "They stored olives in a large crock";
   - earthenware jar
    
2. [informal] Nonsense; foolish talk
   "that's a crock"
    
3. A shard of pottery
   "Archaeologists carefully collected crock from the excavation site";
   - potsherd
    
4. [informal] Something or someone old and decrepit, esp. an infirm old person
   "That car's a real crock, it breaks down every other week"
    
5. [dialect] Sooty or dirty mark; a speck of dirt or sooty material
   "His white shirt had a crock of soot on the collar";
   - smut

1. Release colour when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric
   "This new shirt crocks easily"
    
2. Soil with or as with crock
   "The child crocked her dress with dirt from the garden"

Sounds like: cro

Derived forms: crocked, crocking, crocks

Type of: begrime, bemire [archaic], bleed, bunk [informal], colly [archaic], dirty, fragment, grime, hokum [informal], jar, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, run, shard, sherd, soil

Encyclopedia: Crock