hoick

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A form of hoik — A wild hook shot played without style.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounhoick (plural hoicks)

plural hoicks

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of hoik.
verbhoick (third-person singular simple present hoicks, present participle hoicking, simple past and past participle hoicked)

present singular third person hoicks · participle present hoicking · participle past hoicked · past hoicked

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of hoik.

    I smashed my way to 70-odd in about half a dozen overs and when I got served a short one I hoicked it away high over mid wicket.

    1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 69
    1 more example

    As he tried to pass between a man in red and a man in blue, two pole-ends were pushed under his belly in an attempt to hoick him back. But Tarka slipped off the shillet-burnished iron and broke the stickle.

    1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19

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Chicago

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