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hock
1[ hok ]
noun
- the joint in the hind leg of a horse, cow, etc., above the fetlock joint, corresponding anatomically to the ankle in humans.
- a corresponding joint in a fowl.
verb (used with object)
- to hamstring.
hock
2[ hok ]
noun
- any white Rhine wine.
hock
3[ hok ]
verb (used with object)
hock
1/ hɒk /
verb
- tr to pawn or pledge
noun
- the state of being in pawn (esp in the phrase in hock )
- in hock
- in prison
- in debt
- in pawn
hock
2/ hɒk /
noun
- the joint at the tarsus of a horse or similar animal, pointing backwards and corresponding to the human ankle
- the corresponding joint in domestic fowl
verb
- another word for hamstring
hock
3/ hɒk /
noun
- any of several white wines from the German Rhine
- (not in technical usage) any dry white wine
Derived Forms
- ˈhocker, noun
Other Words From
- hocker noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of hock1
Origin of hock2
Origin of hock3
Word History and Origins
Origin of hock1
Origin of hock2
Origin of hock3
Example Sentences
A man like Ti, my informant explains, buys jewels whenever he is in the money, to sell or hock when times are hard.
Attorneys for Hock and Jah could not be reached for comment.
According to court documents, Hock flatly denies the allegations.
When Hock emerged from jail uninjured, both he and Strazzullo poured forth to the press.
Hock, the source says, was the aggressor who clocked Casiraghi first.
A pedantic fellow called for a bottle of hock at a tavern, which the waiter, not hearing distinctly, asked him to repeat.
If they liked to take a glass of hock with their tobacco, there was a bottle ready from the cellars of Johannisberg.
He nodded to me as though we had parted the day before, and ordered a chop and a small hock.
They clicked their heels and kissed her hand and drank her health many times in good hock.
Each leg will thus supply a comfortable Wellington, in which the point of the hock has become the heel.
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