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How to use hock in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Hock means a Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines. Example: “He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.”

Examples of hock by meaning

nounThe 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

nounPawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.

  • He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
  • 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

nounDebt.

  • They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.

nounInstallment purchase.

  • Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed.2007, Tara Hanks, The Mmm Girl: Marilyn Monroe, by Herself, page 28

More sentences with hock

  • Her necklace is in hock in order to cover some family expenses.From the entry in hock
  • Stop already hocking us to be good! hocking us to be nice!1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, pages 121–122. From the entry respectabilize
  • Cornmeal, gunpowder, ham hocks and guitar strings!1965, Yukon Cornelius, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. From the entry ham hock
  • In the end he was blood from head to hocks and all over the place like a mad woman's custard.1959, D'Arcy Niland, Woman from the country, page 212. From the entry all over the place like a mad woman's custard
  • The cuneiform tendon is always sharply defined when the hock is flexed by the action of the muscle.1936, W. Frank Calderon, Animal Painting and Anatomy, page 297. From the entry cuneiform
  • When the bill came, I got a side-glance at it, and hoped Rose would have to hock her sparklers to pay it.1964, Mexican Life: Mexico's Monthly Review, volume 40, page 65. From the entry sparkler
  • 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.2022 June 5, Ezra Klein, “Your Kids Are Not Doomed”, in The New York Times. From the entry in hock
  • He had spent the Carson case nest egg and was in hock for the next ten years if he had to pay what he was borrowing.2010, R. Thomas Roe, Palm Beach Gold, page 169. From the entry zero out
  • Rounding out the list is Schweinsfüße, or ham hocks, which are at their best when crisply fried and smothered in sauerkraut or Apfelrotkohl (a sort of applesaucey-kraut mess).1995, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, Germany & Austria on the Loose, 1995…. From the entry applesaucey
  • If two different juries that sat in on the court dealings from soda to hock can't see the same verdict, don't trust no cowhand seventy-one winters gone to judge him.2008, Richard E. Baker, Letters from Across the Big Divide, page 56. From the entry from soda to hock

Meaning of hock

  1. noun A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
  2. noun The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
  3. noun Meat from that part of a food animal.

Full definition of hock

Questions about hock in a sentence

How do you use hock in a sentence?
Hock is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.”
What is a short sentence with hock?
“Cornmeal, gunpowder, ham hocks and guitar strings!”
What does hock mean?
Hock means a Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.

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