as in jail
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
some lowlife who had been in and out of hock most of his adult life
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as in to pawn
to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan
the prince had to hock the family jewels to pay his gambling debts
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Recent Examples of hock
Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
There’s not a lot of meat on ham hocks, but there’s a lot of skin and bone, which after a long simmer infuse the potlikker with collagen, like a rich bone broth.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
Curtailing the items eligible could embolden Amazon ’s competitive online retail advantage — but also poses a risk to fellow portfolio stock Meta Platforms , which has benefited from the likes of Temu and Shein flooding social media with ads hocking their products.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Most regular folks still go in hock trying to go to a Super Bowl.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
There’s not a lot of meat on ham hocks, but there’s a lot of skin and bone, which after a long simmer infuse the potlikker with collagen, like a rich bone broth.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
If Emily can be in Paris and Rome, why can’t Robert be in Joshua Tree hocking ayahuasca?
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2024
Curtailing the items eligible could embolden Amazon ’s competitive online retail advantage — but also poses a risk to fellow portfolio stock Meta Platforms , which has benefited from the likes of Temu and Shein flooding social media with ads hocking their products.
—Paulina Likos, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hock
Noun
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Seven inmates are still at large on May 19 after escaping from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Boyd and Price were also in jail on serious charges.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 May 2025
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In lieu of a thank-you, Michael waits until his benefactor’s guard is down, assaults him, then steals his watch and pawns it.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
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Investigators also learned that a friend of Johnson's had pawned a handgun for him.—
William Morris,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The gallows, where 15 penitentiary inmates were executed by hanging, were no longer there.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
17 May 2025
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Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 2025
Verb
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In Oregon, people can sign up for accounts in which their refunds are deposited or choose cash redemptions.—
Claire Rush,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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This is called mandatory deposit and requires the owner of copyright materials and works under copyright protection that have been published or distributed in the United States to be deposited with the Copyright Office within three months of the date of first publication.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
16 May 2025
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In that case, Douglas was sentenced to five years of probation and had his 2-year prison sentence stayed, court documents say.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2025
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In June 2024, three people were sentenced to eight months in prison after being found guilty of racially abusing Vinicius Jr in that May 2023 match at Valencia.—
Colin Millar,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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“Hock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hock. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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