Word.ws English Dictionary

ham hocks

ham hocks is the plural of ham hock.

Meaning of ham hock

Noun

ham hock (countable and uncountable, plural ham hocks)

  1. The cut of meat at the joint between the leg and foot of a hog.
    • Cornmeal, gunpowder, ham hocks and guitar strings!1965, Yukon Cornelius, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
    Synonyms:
    pork knuckle

Questions about ham hocks

What is ham hocks the plural of?
Ham hocks is the plural of ham hock.

Words near ham hocks in the dictionary

  1. ham e-mail
  2. ham exam
  3. Ham Green
  4. ham hands
  5. ham hock
  6. ham hocks
  7. ham it up
  8. ham planet
  9. ham planets
  10. ham radio
  11. ham salad

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ham hocks (page history and authors); ham hock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ham hocks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ham_hocks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.