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Hock (noun)
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
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Hock (noun)
The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
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Hock (noun)
Meat from that part of a food animal.
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Hock (noun)
Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
“He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.”
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Hock (noun)
Debt.
“They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.”
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Hock (noun)
Installment purchase.
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Hock (noun)
Prison.
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Hock (noun)
To cough heavily, esp. causing uvular frication.
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Hock (noun)
To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag.
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Hock (verb)
To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
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Hock (verb)
To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
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Hock (verb)
To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly
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Hork (verb)
To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
“I downloaded the program, but something is horked and it won’t load.”
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Hork (verb)
To steal, especially petty theft or misnomer in jest.
“Can I hork that code from you for my project?”
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Hork (verb)
To vomit, cough up.
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Hork (verb)
To throw.
“Let’s go hork pickles at people from the back row of the movie theatre.”
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Hork (verb)
To eat hastily or greedily; to gobble.
“I don’t know what got into her, but she horked all those hoagies last night!”
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Hork (verb)
To move.
“Go hork the kegs from out back.”
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Hock (noun)
the joint in a quadruped’s hind leg between the knee and the fetlock, the angle of which points backwards.
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Hock (noun)
a knuckle of meat, especially of pork or ham.
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Hock (noun)
a dry white wine from the German Rhineland.
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Hock (noun)
variant spelling of hawk
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Hock (verb)
deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.