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Definition of hoick in English: hoickverb hɔɪkhɔɪk British informal with object and adverbial of direction Lift or pull abruptly or with effort. she hoicked her bag on to the desk Example sentencesExamples - Wilson said that the college has been ‘completely and utterly unhelpful - they just hoick prices up when they want.’
- I hoicked my jacket up on to an empty peg.
- What republican would not hoick his or her beliefs overboard to wallow in such taxpayer-funded luxury?
- All we see of it now is how they hoicked out tons of rubble and masonry leaving only their trenches behind.
- Only a few minutes into the interview he swivels in his smallish chair, hoicking his legs over the arms, loafers dangling and showing a bit of leg - a pose he retains for the rest of the interview.
- But mark my words - such a strategy will never work, because by mid morning, you'll be reaching down and adjusting your sock levels by hoicking them back up into place.
- She fell in like one of them herself, a part of the third human chain that was suddenly and fairly efficiently hoicking sacks of grain from Red Diamond's hold and heaving them over the side.
- To hoick the spacecraft up out of that well takes thrust - often quite a lot of it.
- The object was to finish by hoicking the ball through a raised hoop using a different spoon-like tool which was adapted more for accuracy and less for power like a putter in the game of golf.
- James was hoicking snow out of his left ear, clearly he had landed harder than he had thought.
- I hoick all the cane furniture into the house to dry and rearrange the floral layout.
Synonyms lift, lift up, raise aloft, elevate
noun hɔɪkhɔɪk British informal An abrupt pull. Example sentencesExamples - With a bit of a hoick, Woods blasts his second shot just through the green.
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps a variant of hike. Definition of hoick in US English: hoickverbhoikhɔɪk informal with object and adverbial of direction Lift or pull abruptly or with effort. she hoicked her bag on to the desk Example sentencesExamples - James was hoicking snow out of his left ear, clearly he had landed harder than he had thought.
- I hoick all the cane furniture into the house to dry and rearrange the floral layout.
- Only a few minutes into the interview he swivels in his smallish chair, hoicking his legs over the arms, loafers dangling and showing a bit of leg - a pose he retains for the rest of the interview.
- I hoicked my jacket up on to an empty peg.
- But mark my words - such a strategy will never work, because by mid morning, you'll be reaching down and adjusting your sock levels by hoicking them back up into place.
- The object was to finish by hoicking the ball through a raised hoop using a different spoon-like tool which was adapted more for accuracy and less for power like a putter in the game of golf.
- What republican would not hoick his or her beliefs overboard to wallow in such taxpayer-funded luxury?
- Wilson said that the college has been ‘completely and utterly unhelpful - they just hoick prices up when they want.’
- She fell in like one of them herself, a part of the third human chain that was suddenly and fairly efficiently hoicking sacks of grain from Red Diamond's hold and heaving them over the side.
- To hoick the spacecraft up out of that well takes thrust - often quite a lot of it.
- All we see of it now is how they hoicked out tons of rubble and masonry leaving only their trenches behind.
Synonyms lift, lift up, raise aloft, elevate
nounhoikhɔɪk informal An abrupt pull. Example sentencesExamples - With a bit of a hoick, Woods blasts his second shot just through the green.
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps a variant of hike. |