socks and knocks
n.pl.— «Do GHG, socks, knocks and land use have any impact on DSM or SSE at all?…Have you done similar analysis of Gull, or Conawapa, or Notigi, on those particular issues of GHG, socks, knocks and land use, to use the slang?…Determining the lifecycle socks and knocks is not something that we use at a screening level.» —“Hearing: Wuskwatim Generation and Transmission Project” by Doug Abra, Ed Wojczynski Manitoba Clean Environment Commission Verbatim Transcript (Can.) Mar. 2, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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