hock

1. 1.

   leave as a guarantee in return for money

   “pawn your grandfather's gold watch”

   Synonymspawnsoak

   Broaderconsign

   commerce

2. 2.

   disable by cutting the hock

   Broaderdisable

Other forms of hock

plural

hocks·

past tense

hocked·

present participle

hocking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hock

What does hock mean?

hock means "any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hock?

hock has 1 syllable: hock. In IPA it is /ˈhɑk/.

What is another word for hock?

Close synonyms include Rhine wine, Rhenish, hock-joint, pawn, soak. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hock a common word?

hock is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hock?

1 word rhymes with hock. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.