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in hock

prep_phrase

Etymology

From Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”).

  1. derived from hok — “hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”

Definitions

  1. Having been pawned.

    • Her necklace is in hock in order to cover some family expenses.

  2. Indebted.

    • The wind doesn’t stop blowing because an autocrat has a tantrum; harnessing the solar radiation that bathes our world doesn’t leave us in hock to the House of Saud.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for in hock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA