hock

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hock1

▶noun

• 1 (Brit. also hough) the joint in a quadruped's hind leg between the knee and the fetlock.

• 2 a knuckle of pork or ham.

– origin ME: var. of hough.

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hock2

▶noun Brit. a dry white wine from the German Rhineland.

– origin abbrev. of obs. hockamore, alt. of Ger. Hochheimer (Wein) ‘(wine) from Hochheim’.

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hock3

▶verb informal pawn (an object).

– phrases
in hock having been pawned.

■ in debt.

– origin C19: from Du. hok ‘hutch, prison, debt’.