hocknoun
uk/hɒk/us/hɑːk/hock noun (MONEY)
in debt:
Possessions that are in hock are pawned (= left temporarily with a person in exchange for an amount of money that must be paid back after a limited time to prevent the thing from being sold):
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Borrowing & lending
- be in the hole idiom
- borrow
- bounce
- call it quits idiom
- call sth in
- credit
- credit risk
- debenture
- fire sale
- gearing
- leveraged buyout
- liability
- liquidate
- national debt
- overpay
- pay
- put sth up
- slate
- term
- tick
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hock noun (ANIMAL)
[ C ] the middle joint in the back leg of an animal such as a horse
[ C ] mainly US the meat on the lower leg of an animal:
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Horses & similar animals
- beast
- beast of burden idiom
- bronco
- brood mare
- brumby
- chestnut
- fetlock
- gelding
- horse-drawn
- hunter
- mane
- mare
- mule
- mustang
- nag
- piebald
- skewbald
- stud
- thoroughbred
- zebra
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hock noun (WINE)
[ U ] mainly UK a type of white wine from Germany
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Wines & winemaking
- -bodied
- amontillado
- Bordeaux
- breathe
- brut
- bubbly
- lay
- magnum
- Marsala
- martini
- nose
- oaky
- oenophile
- red wine
- rough
- vintner
- viticulture
- white wine
- wine
- wine cooler
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hockverb [ T ]
uk/hɒk/us/hɑːk/informalto sell something that you hope to buy back later because you need money now:
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- package
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realization
- serve
- shift
- supersize
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
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