croc

• Homophone: crock

Clipping of crocodile.

croc (plural crocs)

1. (informal) A crocodile.

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

croc (plural crocs)

1. A plastic slip-on shoe.

• gator

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 *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”), Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”). More at crook, crooked.

• IPA^(key): /kʁo/, (nonstandard) /kʁɔ/
• (Belgium, Franche-Comté) IPA^(key): /kʁɔk/

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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

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

• acrochier
• encrochier
• encroer