hoik
/hɔɪk/
hoik noun: a wild hook shot played without style.
Noun
hoik (countable and uncountable, plural hoiks)
- A wild hook shot played without style.
- Sputum.
- A contraption that allows rapid teleportation in Terraria, making use of a glitch involving sloped blocks.
Verb
hoik (third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked)
- To play such a shot.
- To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
- To throw something out.
- “What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII
- To spit.
Forms of hoik
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hoiks |
| alternative form | hoick |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hoiks |
| present participle | hoiking |
| past participle | hoiked |
| past | hoiked |
Origin of hoik
Possibly originally a form of hike (itself of unclear etymology).
Words that rhyme with hoik
Questions about hoik
- What does hoik mean?
- Hoik means a wild hook shot played without style.
- What part of speech is hoik?
- Hoik can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hoik?
- Hoik is pronounced /hɔɪk/.
- What is the plural of hoik?
- The plural of hoik is hoiks.
Words near hoik in the dictionary
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