hoe

plural hoes

1. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
   1. when not otherwise specifiedAn agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.

      For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.

      1 more example

      It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.

      2009, TRU TV, 28 March

      Synonyms: hand hoe

   2. Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.

      The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]

present singular third person hoes · participle present hoeing · participle past hoed · past hoed

1. ambitransitiveTo cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

   to hoe the earth in a garden

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   Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.

   I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.

2. transitiveTo clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

   to hoe corn

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   The first thing he saw was Mr. McGregor hoeing onions. His back was turned towards Peter, and beyond him was the gate!

   1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit

plural hoes · alternative ho · alternative 'ho

1. alternativederogatoryslangAlternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).

   Fuck all you hoes. Get a grip, motherfucker.

   1994, 0:00 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.

   4 more examples

   Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes

   1973, “Spoon”, in Hustler's Convention, performed by Lightnin' Rod

   […] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (and hoe) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination

   2002, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

   At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm

   2003, Dan Harrington, The Good Eye

   On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).

   2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post

   Synonyms: abandons, alley cat, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch

present singular third person hoes · participle present hoeing · participle past hoed · past hoed · alternative ho · alternative 'ho

1. USalternativeslangAlternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).

   Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.

   2003, Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp

plural hoes · alternative hough

1. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

plural hoes

1. OrkneyShetlandThe horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

1. A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF995211).

plural Hoes

1. A surname.