hoik

H4O1I1K5
/hɔɪk/

noun

A wild hook shot played without style.

First used late 2013Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounhoik (countable and uncountable, plural hoiks)

plural hoiks · alternative hoick

  1. countableball gamesA wild hook shot played without style.
  2. New ZealandcountableuncountableSputum.
  3. countableuncountablegamesA contraption that allows rapid teleportation in Terraria, making use of a glitch involving sloped blocks.First known use late 2013
verbhoik (third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked)

present singular third person hoiks · participle present hoiking · participle past hoiked · past hoiked · alternative hoick

  1. ball gamesTo play such a shot.
  2. informaltransitiveTo lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
  3. informaltransitiveTo throw something out.

    “What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”

    1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII
  4. New ZealandTo spit.

Origin

Possibly originally a form of hike (itself of unclear etymology).

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APA

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Chicago

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