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hocked

hocked is the simple past and past participle of hock.

Meaning of hock

Verb (1)

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

Verb (2)

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

  1. (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...2013, “Only You” (20:08 from the start), in The Americans, season 1, episode 10

Verb (3)

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

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

See all 13 meanings of hock

Adjective

hocked (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds) Having a specified kind of hock.
    • I was on a running Morgan that could leave anything in six counties behind, and all she had was that short-hocked dapple pony.1984, Dan Parkinson, Gunpowder Glory, page 103

Words formed from hocked

Questions about hocked

What does hocked mean?
Hocked means having a specified kind of hock.
What is hocked the simple past and past participle of?
Hocked is the simple past and past participle of hock.
What part of speech is hocked?
Hocked is an adjective.

Words near hocked in the dictionary

  1. Hockaday
  2. Hockadays
  3. hockamore
  4. Hockchiew
  5. Hockday
  6. hocked
  7. Hockenberry
  8. Hockenberrys
  9. Hockenbury
  10. Hockenburys
  11. Hockenheim

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