Hock

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.

   “That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.”

2. isim The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

   “Anyway, you only have one golden retriever, SWORDDOG, and she is already armed to the hocks.”

3. isim Meat from that part of a food animal.
4. isim The hollow behind the knee.
5. fiil To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
6. fiil To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
7. isim Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.

   “He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.”

8. isim Debt.

   “They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.”

9. isim Installment purchase.

   “Later, Uncle Doc bought a couch on hock, then a bed.”

10. isim Prison.
11. fiil To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
12. fiil Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”).
13. isim Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).

    “One or two coughs signified 1 or 2. Clearing a throat meant 3. A loud hock was 4 and a loud sneeze or spit indicated 5. The new system gained favor. Jerry figured the guards must have thought the POWs were near death given the volume of bodily noise coming from Alcatraz.”

14. isim The last card turned up in the game of faro.
15. özel isim A surname.