hock

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1. 1

   A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim…

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

   • That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.
2. 2

   The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

   • Anyway, you only have one golden retriever, SWORDDOG, and she is already armed to the hocks.
3. 3

   Meat from that part of a food animal.

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   1. 4

      The hollow behind the knee.

   2. 5

      To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock

      To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.

   3. 6

      To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.

   4. 7

      Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.

      • He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
      • But Ford Motor Co. needs another agency, either Standard & Poor's or Moody's, to make the same upgrade before it can get its blue oval logo, factories and other assets out of hock.
   5. 8

      Debt.

      • They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.
   6. 9

      Installment purchase.

      • Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed.
   7. 10

      Prison.

   8. 11

      To bother

      To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.

   9. 12

      Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”).

   10. 13

       Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).

       • […] said with another cough and a loud hock.
   11. 14

       The last card turned up in the game of faro.

   12. 15

       A surname.

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