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hock

3  [hok]
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–verb (used with object)
1. pawn.
–noun
2. the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
3. the condition of owing; debt: After the loan was paid, he was finally out of hock.
Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; < D hok kennel, sty, pen, (informal) miserable place to live, prison

Related forms:
hocker, noun
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mietmöbel designmöbel
kopfstand mobiliar gmbh designmobiliar für messen
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Slang Dictionary
hock

  1. tv.
    to pawn something. : I tried to hock my watch to get some money.
  2. n.
    a foot. : My hocks are sore from all that walking.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

hock  (n.3)
"pawn, debt," first recorded 1859 in Amer.Eng. as in hock, which meant both "in debt" and "in prison," from Du. hok "jail, pen, doghouse." The verb is 1878, from the noun.
"When one gambler is caught by another, smarter than himself, and is beat, then he is in hock. Men are only caught, or put in hock, on the race-tracks, or on the steamboats down South. ... Among thieves a man is in hock when he is in prison." [G.W. Matsell, "Vocabulum," 1859]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hock
Pronunciation: 'häk
Function: noun
: the joint or region of the joint that unites the tarsal bones in the hind limb of a digitigradequadruped (as the horse) and that corresponds to the human ankle but is elevated and bends backward
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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