as in jail
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
some lowlife who had been in and out of hock most of his adult life
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as in to pawn
to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan
the prince had to hock the family jewels to pay his gambling debts
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Recent Examples of hock
Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024
The hard pass is especially effective when paired with a refusal to look up from your phone or a disdainful loogie hock.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
Services like Kuaishou and Douyin—ByteDance’s version of TikTok for the Chinese market—have become new shopping hubs as streamers hock new products to their audience.
—Bylionel Lim, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
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Coppola last went into hock for another long-aborning and cost-overrunning project, which 45 years ago, almost to the day, also premiered at Cannes: the now legendary Apocalypse Now (1979).
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024
The hard pass is especially effective when paired with a refusal to look up from your phone or a disdainful loogie hock.
—Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024
Verb
But none of these journalists, educators and media outlets are necessarily hocking drugs online.
—Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
Services like Kuaishou and Douyin—ByteDance’s version of TikTok for the Chinese market—have become new shopping hubs as streamers hock new products to their audience.
—Bylionel Lim, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
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Tekashi is expected to plead guilty on November 12 to violating supervised release and agree to serve a one-month jail sentence, and another year of supervision, according to the Associated Press.Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Audio clips from Wolff’s August 2017 interview with Epstein — two years before he was found dead in a jail cell — can be found at the Daily Beast’s website.Michael Schneider, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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Here, Morgan Murphy simply ignores the talk-show question she’s asked and chooses instead to try to pawn a used desk of hers off on someone in the audience.Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
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To the show’s not-really-defense, it’s never taken a strong stance on Jimmy’s new approach, which followed a year of catatonia, debauchery and pawning his teenage daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) off on their neighbor Liz (Christa Miller) to surrogate parent.Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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Garcia Glenn White was pronounced dead shortly before 7 p.m. local time at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, according to CBS News, The Associated Press, and USA Today.Sean Neumann, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
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In Texas, Travis Mullis was pronounced dead at the state penitentiary in Huntsville at 7:01 p.m. for the killing of his 3-month-old son.Louis Casiano, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
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Once that is complete, make sure to deposit at least $5 into your account.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Divers then had another employee instruct some customers to deposit funds into these accounts.Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 2 Nov. 2024
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Jay Johnston was sentenced on October 28 to one year and one day in prison for his involvement in January 6.Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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If convicted, the punishment is life in prison without the possibility of parole.Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Hock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hock. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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