ham hock

1. 1.

   a small cut of meat from the leg just above the foot

   Broaderleg

Questions about ham hock

What does ham hock mean?

ham hock means "a small cut of meat from the leg just above the foot".

Is ham hock a common word?

ham hock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.