(countable, uncountable) A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
The dinner that they sat down to in the fly-specked dining-room was of boiled beef and carrots, with a turgid ginger pudding to follow, though Grierson went down to the cellar himself and found some dusty bottles of hock, overlooked for years because there was no demand for it in a beer-drinking community. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 158:
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. 1891 [1887], Oscar Wilde, “The Model Millionaire”, in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories:
From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.
See also West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”); also Lithuanian ki̇̀nka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”).
Meanings
(countable) 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. 2013, Kazerad, Gaius: Recap goals, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), February 06 2013
(countable, uncountable) Meat from that part of a food animal.
et põlveõnar (hollow of the knee) · es tarso (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · ast llazarón (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · nl schenkel (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · pl dół podkolanowy (hollow of the knee) · gl sofraxe (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · ru о́корок (meat from that part of a food animal) · enm hough (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · fi kinner (meat from that part of a food animal) · ru скакательный суста́в (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · et põlveõnnal (hollow of the knee) · de Haxe (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · tr hanep (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · pl udziec (meat from that part of a food animal) · uk рулька (meat from that part of a food animal) · ko 오금 (hollow of the knee) · it garretto (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · es corvejón (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · es corvejos (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · fi kinner (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · de Hachse (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · gl bésta (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · ast corveyón (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · es jarrete (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · pl golonka (meat from that part of a food animal) · uk жижка (hollow of the knee) · et kints (meat from that part of a food animal) · enm hough (meat from that part of a food animal) · it garretto (meat from that part of a food animal) · wa djeret (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · cs kolínko (meat from that part of a food animal) · fr jarret (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · tyz cảo (hollow of the knee) · wa djeret (meat from that part of a food animal) · vi khoeo chân (hollow of the knee) · tyz ca noóng kha (hollow of the knee) · gl bestra (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · la suffrago (meat from that part of a food animal) · et kintsuliha (meat from that part of a food animal) · gl corvellón (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · pt gâmbia (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · cs hlezno (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · pl staw skokowy (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · et kinner (hollow of the knee) · ga speir (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · sv hasled (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · es jarrete (hollow of the knee) · la suffrāgō (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped) · es corva (hollow of the knee) · gl xarrete (meat from that part of a food animal) · tyz coóng cảo (hollow of the knee) · et kinner (tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped)
hock en · VERB · etymology 2
Etymology
From Middle English hough, hoche, hokke, from Old English hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.
See also West Frisian hakke, Dutch hak, German Low German Hacke, Hack (“heel”); also Lithuanian ki̇̀nka (“leg, thigh, knee-cap”), kenklė̃ (“knee-cap”), Sanskrit कङ्काल (kaṅkāla, “skeleton”).
Meanings
(transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
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.
Meanings
(informal, uncountable) Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
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. 2012 April 25, Patty Murphy, “Business bulletin”, in Associated Press, page 10A:
He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
(informal, uncountable) Debt.
They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.
(informal, uncountable) Installment purchase.
Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed. 2007, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself, page 28:
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.
Meanings
(colloquial, transitive) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
Agent Beeman (Noah Emmerich): I think we got him. / Special Agent Gaad (Richard Thomas): Who? / Agent Beeman: I-I-I don't know. The guy who killed Chris, the--the Russians, the whole damn thing maybe. / Special Agent Gaad: You want to sit down? / Agent Beeman: The guy from the salvage yard who hocked the ring, and he does business with some riffraff from the projects. 2013, “Only You” (20:08 from the start), in The Americans, season 1, episode 10:
es empeñarse (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · bg залагам (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · nl verpanden (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · pl zastawić (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · et pantima (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · de verpfänden (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · fi kinner (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · ru закла́дывать (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · de versetzen (leave with a pawnbroker as security) · pl zastawiać (leave with a pawnbroker as security)
hock en · VERB · etymology 4
Etymology
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”).
Meanings
(US, informal) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
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hock en · NOUN · etymology 5
Etymology
Probably imitative (a variant form of hawk (“cough”)), like hack (“cough”), although see that entry for more.
Meanings
(alt-of, alternative, informal) Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).
One or two coughs signified 1 or 2. Clearing a throat meant 3. A loud hock was 4 and a loud sneeze or spit indicated 5. The new system gained favor. Jerry figured the guards must have thought the POWs were near death given the volume of bodily noise coming from Alcatraz. 2019 March 26, Alvin Townley, Captured: An American Prisoner of War in North Vietnam (Scholastic Focus), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
[…] said with another cough and a loud hock. 2006 09, Barry Yelton, Scarecrow in Gray, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 99: