释义 |
hoick /hɔɪk /British informal verb [with object and adverbial of direction]Lift or pull abruptly or with effort: she hoicked her bag on to the desk...- 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.
nounAn abrupt pull.With a bit of a hoick, Woods blasts his second shot just through the green. OriginLate 19th century: perhaps a variant of hike. Rhymesoik |