hoickn.
/hɔɪk/, U.S. /hɔɪk/ colloquial.
a. Rowing. (See quot. 1898.)
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing > style of rowing > jerk
bucket1888
hoick1898
1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 297/1 Hoick, a jerk with the arms at the beginning or end of the stroke, which prevents a steady leg drive from the stretcher.
1907 Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 9/1 Cambridge sacrifice everything to a terrible hoick at the finish.
b. Aeronautics. A jerky pull (on the stick). (Cf. hoick v.1 2.)
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > control column operations or states
stick force1920
stick-fixed1939
hoick1946
1946 A. Phelps I couldn't care Less vi. 43 The Magister responded to my wild hoik on the stick and came off.
c. Cricket. A jerky, hoisted shot.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke
long ball1744
nip1752
catch1816
no-hit1827
cut1833
short hit1833
draw1836
drive1836
square hit1837
skylarker1839
skyer1840
skyscraper1842
back-cut1845
bum1845
leg sweep1846
slog1846
square cut1850
driver1851
Harrow drive1851
leg slip1852
poke1853
snick1857
snorter1859
leg stroke1860
smite1861
on-drive1862
bump ball1864
rocketer1864
pull1865
grass trimmer1867
late cut1867
off-drive1867
spoon1871
push1873
push stroke1873
smack1875
Harrow drive1877
pull-stroke1880
leg glance1883
gallery-hit1884
boundary-stroke1887
glide1888
sweep1888
boundary1896
hook1896
leg glide1896
backstroke1897
flick1897
hook stroke1897
cover-drive1898
straight drive1898
square drive1900
edger1905
pull-drive1905
slash1906
placing stroke1907
push drive1912
block shot1915
if-shot1920
placing shot1921
cow-shot1922
mow1925
Chinese cut1937
haymaker1954
hoick1954
perhapser1954
air shot1956
steepler1959
mishook1961
swish1963
chop-
1954 A. G. Moyes Austral. Batsmen xii. 164 He..gets a lot of runs with a stroke which Cheetham called a ‘hoik’.
1956 A. R. Alston Test Comm. ix. 60 Lindwall's one scoring stroke was an ungainly ‘hoick’ for six.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hoickv.1
/hɔɪk/, U.S. /hɔɪk/ slang or colloquial.
1. transitive. To lift up or hoist, often with a jerk or rapid movement. Also to haul or turn out. Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > cause to move suddenly [verb (transitive)] > jerk
braida1000
hitch1440
spang1513
jog1548
jert1566
jerk1582
gag1587
to toss up1588
tossa1618
thrip1674
shrug1678
flip1712
hotch1823
switch1842
slirt1870
hoick1898
quirk1978
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > rapidly or suddenly
fridge1676
hoick1898
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > lift or take up > lift briskly
to tick up1586
hitch1834
hoick1898
1898 G. Nickalls in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 346 Until the finish, which, to be made really effective, must be honestly hoicked out.
1908 H. Belloc On Nothing 136 Beneath him the sand sloped down until it met the sea... Every now and then Mahmoud would force a son or domestic of his to go down and hoick out a pearl.
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 146/1 The patient Captain Croucher hoicked her from destruction in the nick of time.
1914 W. J. Locke Fortunate Youth i. 20 He hoicked a bit of his shirt~tail from his breeches and proceeded to knot the cornelian heart secure therein.
1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle ii. 24 I had got myself adjusted to this trench business... And now you have hoicked me out.
1918 A. Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell vi I dashed around to the rear of the cab, collared Farrell, and hoicked him inboard.
1930 E. Blunden De Bello Germanico iii. 28 His cue to ‘hoik out’ the unwary scrimshankers.
1931 C. Mackenzie Buttercups & Daisies v Blackbirds and thrushes hoicking worms out of the moist ground.
1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good ii. 49 The noise stops; and the bicyclist, having hoiked his machine up on to its stand..comes past the pavilion.
1952 P. G. Wodehouse Pigs have Wings v. 99 ‘Mr. Galahad is in the amber drawing~room.’..‘Then go and hoik him out of it.’
1954 W. Faulkner Fable (1955) 66 No need for them to hunt down and hoick out and execute a mere thirteen men.
1962 M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 51 This process..hoicks societies of the world of ‘sacred’ or cosmic space and time into the detribalized or ‘profane’ space and time of civilized and pragmatic man.
1972 Country Life 9 Mar. 548/3 Is there anything conceivably related to the art of fly fishing in hoicking out trout that have had no chance to live a natural life?
2. To force (an aeroplane) to climb steeply to a higher level. Also intransitive, to jerk oneself out of, etc.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > ascend or gain height > suddenly and steeply
hoicka1918
zoom1917
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (transitive)] > cause to ascend > suddenly and steeply
hoicka1918
zoom1918
a1918 J. T. B. McCudden Five Years in R.F.C. (1919) 287 He..hoicked out of the dive with such vim that three wing-tips at once collapsed.
1919 Glasgow Herald 19 Dec. 10 The pilot yanks the joystick to hoick her up.
1928 Daily Mail 7 May 6/4 Hoiking.—Sweeping suddenly to avoid an obstacle or a dangerous approach to earth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hoickv.2
= hawk v.3
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > have respiratory spasm [verb (intransitive)] > cough > to clear throat
reacheOE
roughOE
yeska1522
retch1534
hawk1582
hough1600
scraw1656
clear1881
hoick1926
1926 A. Huxley Jesting Pilate i. 43 The holy man woke up and began to hoick and spit.
Derivatives
ˈhoicking n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > type of cough
fox's cough1611
churchyard cough1693
hacking1770
barking1813
graveyard cough1873
hoicking1926
smoker's cough1927
1926 A. Huxley Ess. New & Old 5 These frightful hoickings in the throat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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