croc

• IPA^(key): /kɹɒk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒk
• Homophone: crock

Clipping of crocodile.

croc (plural crocs)

1. (colloquial) A crocodile.

From the American shoe company Crocs, Inc., reportedly named for the shoe's resemblance in profile to a crocodile snout or the "multi-environment, amphibious nature" of the animal.

• Croc

croc (plural crocs)

1. A type of EVA foam slip-on clog-style shoe with an open heel, thick sole, rounded toe, retractable heel strap, and ventilation holes on the top and sides.

   Hyponym: croc-off

• croc-off

Crocs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• gator

Inherited from Middle French croc, from Old French croc, croke (“curved instrument, hook”), from Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”), Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”). More at crook, crooked.

• IPA^(key): /kʁo/
• IPA^(key): /kʁɔk/ (nonstandard; now chiefly Belgium, compare broc)
• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ, -ɔk

croc m (plural crocs)

1. hook
2. fang

• avoir les crocs
• croc-en-jambe

• encrouer

From the name of Crocs Inc., a shoe company.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔk/

croc m (plural crocs)

1. croc (type of shoe)

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /kʁɔk/

croc

1. crunch

• “croc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or alternatively borrowed from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”).

croc oblique singular, m (oblique plural cros, nominative singular cros, nominative plural croc)

1. hook
2. a hook-shaped weapon
3. grappling hook

• acrochier
• encrochier
• encroer