hoick

/ hɔɪk /

verb

1. informal.
   to rise or raise abruptly and sharply

   She hoicked her dress above her knees

2. informal.
   to clear the throat and spit

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoick¹

C20: perhaps a variant of hike

Example Sentences

Eventually, Ghulam was able to hoick Joe Root to the mid-wicket boundary, reaching three figures from 192 balls, celebrating with high emotion in the direction of the home dressing room.

From BBC

India needed to equal their record T20 total to win, but Sciver-Brunt bowled Smriti Mandhana in the first over, with the left-hander, who commanded the biggest fee at last year's Women's Premier League auction, bowled through the gate attempting a leg-side hoick.

From BBC

Back-to-back sixes off Agar got him going and he had raced past Vince by the time the partnership was broken, frustration eventually getting the better of the Hampshire man after a quieter period as he tried to hoick Hazlewood over the leg side.

From BBC

But Kabak is preparing to hoick away, too.

From The Guardian

“We’d walk through an abandoned railway, and he’d always say there was a ghost in the tunnel. In the middle of the tunnel, there was a big dip, and when it would rain, he’d hoick my five-year-old brother on to his shoulders and wade through the water to the other side.”

From The Guardian