A sock is a piece of clothing worn on the foot.

Sock or Socks may also refer to:

Animals, characters and identities

  • Sock puppet account, or sock, a deceptive identity
  • Sockington (died 2022), a cat also known as Socks on Twitter
  • Socks (cat) (c. 1989–2009), a White House pet of the Clinton family
  • Socks (Blue Peter cat), a cat featured on a BBC television series from 2006 to 2013

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Sock!, a 1965 album by saxophonist Gene Ammons
  • Socks (novel), a 1973 children's novel about a cat named Socks Bricker by Beverly Cleary
  • Sock, a 2004 novel by Penn Jillette
  • "Socks", a 2022 song by DaBaby from Baby on Baby 2
  • "The Sock" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a 2011 episode of The Amazing World of Gumball
  • Socks Heeler, one of the two cousins of Bluey and Bingo from the television series Bluey
  • Bert "Sock" Wysocki, a fictional character in the television series Reaper
  • The Sock, a statue in Loughborough, England

People

  • Jack Sock (born 1992), American professional tennis and pickleball player
  • Wilfried Sock (born 1944), East German former ice hockey player
  • Tony Byrne (boxer) (1930–2013), Irish boxer known as Socks Byrne
  • Joseph Lanza (1904–1968), Italian-American mafiosi known as Joseph "Socks" Lanza
  • Socks Seibold (1896–1965), American baseball pitcher
  • Socks Seybold (1870–1921), American baseball outfielder

Other uses

  • SOCKS, an Internet protocol
  • Sock (anatomy), the lower part of a horse's foot and specifically its color
  • Strike (attack) (slang: sock)
  • Sock, a symbol of comedy in ancient Greek theatre; see Sock and buskin
  • Socks Glacier, in Ross Dependency of Antarctica

See also

  • Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill, a 2018 video game featuring a fictionalization of the White House cat
  • Dear Socks, Dear Buddy, a book of letters written to the White House cat and dog
  • Sox (disambiguation)