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You can make 8 words from hock according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of hock

hock ohck hcok chok ochk cohk hokc ohkc hkoc khoc okhc kohc hcko chko hkco khco ckho kcho ockh cokh okch koch ckoh kcoh

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Definitions and meaning of hock

hock

Etymology 1

Clipping of hockamore, from the name of the German town of Hochheim am Main.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk
• Homophone: hawk (accents with cot-caught merger)

Noun

hock (countable and uncountable, plural hocks)

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

   Synonym: Hochheimer

See also

• claret, sack, tent

Etymology 2

From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (compare West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (compare Lithuanian kìnka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”)).

Noun

hock (countable and uncountable, plural hocks)

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.

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Verb

hock (third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

1. (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

Synonyms

• hamstring, hough, hox

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:disable

Etymology 3

From the phrase in hock, circa 1855-60, from Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”). Compare also Middle English hukken (“to sell; peddle; sell at auction”), see huck.

Verb

hock (third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

2. (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

Translations

Noun

hock (uncountable) (informal)

1. Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.

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

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

3. Installment purchase.
4. Prison.

Derived terms

• Hock Monday
• Hock Tuesday

References

Etymology 4

From Yiddish האַק (hak), imperative singular form of האַקן (hakn, “to knock”), from the idiomatic expression האַק מיר נישט קיין טשײַניק (hak mir nisht keyn tshaynik, “don't knock a teakettle at me”).

Alternative forms

• hak

Verb

hock (third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

1. (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.

Etymology 5

Variant of hack; from Middle English hacken, hakken, from Old English *haccian ("to hack"; attested in tōhaccian (“to hack to pieces”)), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hoe; hew”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; peg; hook; handle”).

Verb

hock (third-person singular simple present hocks, present participle hocking, simple past and past participle hocked)

1. To cough heavily, especially causing uvular frication.
   1. To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag.
   2. To produce mucus from coughing or clearing one's throat.

      to hock a loogie

Derived terms

• hocker

Etymology 6

Noun

hock (plural hocks)

1. (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.

   Coordinate term: soda

Derived terms

• from soda to hock

Anagrams

• Koch