rough-and-tumble vs sock

rough-and-tumble

noun
  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • An environment of rough activity 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

sock

noun
  • A violent blow; a punch. 

  • A cat's or dog's lower leg that is a different color (usually white) from the color pattern on the rest of the animal. 

  • A sock puppet. 

  • A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors. 

  • A knitted or woven covering for the foot. 

  • A ploughshare. 

intj
  • The sound of a punch or powerful blow. 

verb
  • To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to. 

  • To throw. 

How often have the words rough-and-tumble and sock occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )