hock

Example Sentences

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To invent a new market was only a matter of finding a new asset to hock.

From Literature

In the New Statesman, he said: "We've got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".

From BBC

But he also hocks a family ring to put everything he owns on his poor odds to win, which seems reckless.

From Los Angeles Times

On Saturday, Cabinet Minister Lucy Powell told the BBC Labour was "not in hock" to vested interests "at all", and had declared donations correctly.

From BBC

Razor-sharp teeth and surgical precision allow the bats to make an incision in an animal, such as in the hock of a cow, without the animal feeling it.

From Science Daily