crock n.3
1. (US) the head; esp. in phr. off one’s crock, out of one’s mind, crazy.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Let Tomorrow Come 27: Listen, Joe, you’re off your crock on that. |
2. (US drugs) an opium pipe.
| ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 101/1: crock. 1. An opium pipe. 2. The bowl of an opium pipe. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
| Narcotics Lingo and Lore. |
3. (US) a bottle of (illicitly distilled) whisky.
| Und. Speaks 27/1: Crock, a bottle of bootleg whiskey. | |
| Walk on the Water 15: One crock between twelve guys? [...] there’d be nothing left for us. | |
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4. a drunkard.
| ‘Drunk in Sl.’ in AS XVI:1 Jan. 70/2: drunken person [...] crock. | |
| New Yorker 2 Sept. 66: The Bevins lose their boozy Uncle Joe [...] it is discovered that the aged crock […] [W&F]. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
to admit defeat, to award a victory to someone else.
 | Our Boys No. 2 Dec. in (1909) 142/1: I have been making a long calculation, and I find that this sum will only just cover ex.’s, so I am simply giving you the crock. |