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hockshop

[hok-shop]

hock·shop

[hok-shop]
noun
a pawnshop.

Origin:
1870–75; hock3 + shop
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Hockshop is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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hockshop definition


  1. n.
    a pawnshop. : We took the watch to a hockshop, but couldn't get enough money for it.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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