verruca sock

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verruca sock (plural verruca socks)

  1. A kind of sock-like footwear designed to be worn in swimming pools to prevent the spread of verrucas.
    • 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
      [proposed rules in a political manifesto]7.) Verruca socks to be worn by everyone attending the local swimming pool whether they have a verruca or not. This should cut down the chance of verruca infection to less than zero.