Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day! The accusation that Peter stole the money from the register is such a crock! He’s crock pot ribs most trustworthy and honest man I’ve ever met.

He never came, so his promise to help us was clearly a crock! Oh, that rumor is a crock—there’s no way we’re getting a raise like that. A particularly large sum of money or valuable resources. Regulators chastised the financial firm for chasing crocks of gold through risky investments of questionable legality rather than protect their clients’ funds. You’re not going to find a crock of gold going into this business, but it’s definitely lucrative enough to make a living. To damage or hurt someone or something.

A noun or pronoun can be used between “crock” and “up. Our fence is crocked up because our neighbor ran into it with his tractor. An exclamation that something is ridiculous, nonsense, or clearly untrue. Including “of shit” at the end makes the phrase more emphatic but is also much more rude. A: “Going on an all-wheatgrass diet has given me so much more energy and has really improved my mood! B: “What a crock of shit.