Hock

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

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
2. Meat from that part of a food animal.
3. (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
4. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
6. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• hocks
• hocking
• hocked

Synonyms for hock

Depending on context, synonyms include hamstring, hough, hox, hocking, pawn, soak.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soak, pawn, seltzer, holly, poker, centrepiece.

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