hoke
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Take a walk through the Hall of Fame gallery, where the elect are commemorated with an all-American mixture of hoke and majesty.
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Byington lists "hoke" as "an affirmative particle" in his Dictionary of the Choctaw Language.
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Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words.
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"For a new hoke to hang Judas, six pence."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Oh, go hoke your sed—I mean soak your head!
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Standish, Burt L.
Stem, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly, hoked up a photo collage of Carter holding a gas nozzle to his head.
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She is best when she accompanies herself on the vibrant mouth-bow or guitar, and least satisfying when her own pure style is hoked up with electric guitar and bass.
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Perhaps the Sadat trip was such effective the ater, because it was an event of enough inherent size and poignance to live up to TV's dramatic requirements without needing to be hoked up.
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It has a catchy tune, but is too hoked up to be funny.
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Al þat þu mist mid cliure smiten. þi bile is stif ⁊ scharp ⁊ hoked.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph
On the title ballad, for instance, he'll hold a long note without hoking it up, without forsaking its texture or personality.
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But the joking and the hoking do not seriously impair the moviegoer's sense that he is sharing in the execution of a great and significant event.
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Not above hoking a bit, Kurtz last fall led the band while Benny Goodman played Dizzy Fingers, then conducted an unrehearsed hot chorus of Anchors Aweigh.
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