rock someone's socks

verb

To appeal to somebody very much.

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Meanings

verbrock someone's socks (third-person singular simple present rocks someone's socks, present participle rocking someone's socks, simple past and past participle rocked someone's socks)

present singular third person rocks someone's socks · participle present rocking someone's socks · participle past rocked someone's socks · past rocked someone's socks

  1. intransitiveslangTo appeal to somebody very much.

    Freaking incredible. Unbelievably awesome! I hardly slept at all. I had to listen to all the tracks at least twice before I could get to sleep. I've been waiting forever for this album and it rocks my socks so hard!

    2010, Jerrel Dulay, Diary of an Undead Teenager

Origin

Probably chosen for the rhyme. See rock (“to be favourable, to excel”).

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