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Kids who used to run to the field excited to play, suddenly started loafing to the field wearing their crocs with their heads buried in their phones. Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026 Climate change likely won’t bring crocs back to the West Coast, but ecologists can use the ancient weather data to forecast the kinds of species that might thrive in a similar future. Hannah Richter, Scientific American, 7 May 2026 Andy Donaldson completed the potentially record-breaking swim in Australia, becoming the first man to swim 34 miles up the Ord River, a body of water with 5,500 crocs. ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026 Embrace the offbeat shade with a mint-on-emerald croc print. Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for croc

Word History

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of croc was in 1884

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“Croc.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/croc. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.

Kids Definition

croc

noun
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