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hock

/hok/US // hɒk //UK // (hɒk) //

马克斯,马克斯特,马赫,马克斯坦

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the joint in the hind leg of a horse, cow, etc., above the fetlock joint, corresponding anatomically to the ankle in humans.
    • : a corresponding joint in a fowl.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to hamstring.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • A man like Ti, my informant explains, buys jewels whenever he is in the money, to sell or hock when times are hard.

  • Attorneys for Hock and Jah could not be reached for comment.

  • According to court documents, Hock flatly denies the allegations.

  • When Hock emerged from jail uninjured, both he and Strazzullo poured forth to the press.

  • Hock, the source says, was the aggressor who clocked Casiraghi first.

  • A pedantic fellow called for a bottle of hock at a tavern, which the waiter, not hearing distinctly, asked him to repeat.

  • If they liked to take a glass of hock with their tobacco, there was a bottle ready from the cellars of Johannisberg.

  • He nodded to me as though we had parted the day before, and ordered a chop and a small hock.

  • They clicked their heels and kissed her hand and drank her health many times in good hock.

  • Each leg will thus supply a comfortable Wellington, in which the point of the hock has become the heel.