Meaning of Hoe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
   alt-of, alternative, derogatory, slang
2. A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF995211).
3. A surname.
4. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
5. The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
   Orkney, Shetland
6. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
7. An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
8. Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.

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Examples

“For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.”

“It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.”

“The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]”

“Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes”

“Fuck all you hoes. Get a grip, motherfucker.”

“[…] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (and hoe) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination”

“At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm”

“On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).”

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