Meanings
present singular third person hoicks · participle present hoicking · participle past hoicked · past hoicked
- 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 691 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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hoick. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoick
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