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SOKDR-or/ˈsɒk drɔː/

A sock drawer (id: sock-drawer) is the drawer where socks are kept, usually in a chest of drawers. British homes talk about the sock drawer, the pants drawer, the cutlery drawer — the first noun says what belongs there. US dresser is a chest of drawers. Countable: the top sock drawer.

Meaning

The drawer in a chest where you keep socks.

Examples

• “Your spare socks are in the top sock drawer.”
• “I found the missing glove in the sock drawer.”
• “Keep spare bus tickets in the sock drawer so they do not get washed.”

Good to know

a sock drawer. Pattern: the X drawer (cutlery drawer, underwear drawer). Countable.

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