Meaning of Hock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
   countable, uncountable
2. The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
   countable
3. A surname.
4. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
   informal, uncountable
5. The last card turned up in the game of faro.
   informal
6. Meat from that part of a food animal.
   countable, uncountable
7. Debt.
   informal, uncountable
8. The hollow behind the knee.
   countable
9. Installment purchase.
   informal, uncountable
10. Prison.
    informal, uncountable

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Examples

“That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.”

“The dinner that they sat down to in the fly-specked dining-room was of boiled beef and carrots, with a turgid ginger pudding to follow⟳, though Grierson went down to the cellar himself and found some dusty bottles of hock, overlooked for years because there was no demand⟳ for it in a beer-drinking community.”

“Anyway, you only have⟳ one golden retriever, SWORDDOG, and she is already armed to the hocks.”

“He needed $750 to get⟳ his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.”

“But Ford Motor Co. needs another agency, either Standard & Poor's or Moody's, to make⟳ the same upgrade before it can get⟳ its blue oval logo, factories and other assets out of hock.”

“They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.”

“Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed.”

“One or two coughs signified 1 or 2. Clearing a throat meant 3. A loud hock was 4 and a loud sneeze⟳ or spit⟳ indicated 5. The new system gained favor. Jerry figured the guards must have⟳ thought the POWs were near death given the volume of bodily noise coming from Alcatraz.”

“[…] said with another cough and a loud hock.”

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