Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obsolete variants of hook.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun South Africa A small type of
hut
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Examples
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This invasion would unfold as stage two, given the pre emptive moves on the United States part in resupplying or fortifying the islands, I would have the attack or left hok, flanking manoeuvre, thus bypassing the Philippines initially.
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"After I told them story about it being a smear and all they ate it up hok, line and sinker."
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"There's a four-word idiom, yi hok, nan jin, which translates to 'easy to learn, hard to perfect,' that summarizes dim-sum making," says Chef Lau.
The Heart of Dim Sum Amy Ma 2010
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Similarly, “hok” calls were almost exclusively associated with the presence of a crowned eagle (either a real eagle attack or in response to another monkey's eagle alarm calls), while “hok-oo” calls were given to a range of disturbances within the canopy, including the presence of an eagle or a neighbouring group (whose presence could sometimes be inferred by the vocal behaviour of the females).
Archive 2009-12-01 GamesWithWords 2009
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Similarly, “hok” calls were almost exclusively associated with the presence of a crowned eagle (either a real eagle attack or in response to another monkey's eagle alarm calls), while “hok-oo” calls were given to a range of disturbances within the canopy, including the presence of an eagle or a neighbouring group (whose presence could sometimes be inferred by the vocal behaviour of the females).
Do monkeys have grammar? GamesWithWords 2009
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Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Until Dec. 20 www. hok.no
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Here are my top 10, organized roughly in chronological order (for lack of a more meaningful schema): 1. Ando Momofuku (1910-2007, also Go Pek-hok), inventor of Instant Ramen, died January 7, 2007.
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Here are my top 10, organized roughly in chronological order (for lack of a more meaningful schema): 1. Ando Momofuku (1910-2007, also Go Pek-hok), inventor of Instant Ramen, died January 7, 2007.
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Here are my top 10, organized roughly in chronological order (for lack of a more meaningful schema): 1. Ando Momofuku (1910-2007, also Go Pek-hok), inventor of Instant Ramen, died January 7, 2007.
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Here are my top 10, organized roughly in chronological order (for lack of a more meaningful schema): 1. Ando Momofuku (1910-2007, also Go Pek-hok), inventor of Instant Ramen, died January 7, 2007.
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