Hock

/hɒk/ · noun

Meaning

A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines..

Definitions by Sense

1. A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
2. (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
3. Meat from that part of a food animal.
4. (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
5. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
6. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
7. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
8. Debt.

Example Sentences

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.

Agent Beeman (Noah Emmerich): I think we got him. / Special Agent Gaad (Richard Thomas): Who? / Agent Beeman: I-I-I don't know. The guy who killed Chris, the--the Russians, the whole damn thing maybe. / Special Agent Gaad: You want to sit down? / Agent Beeman: The guy from the salvage yard who hocked the ring, and he does business with some riffraff from the projects.

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.

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Word Forms

• hocks
• hocking
• hocked
• hak

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