shake one's hocks

verb

To get moving; to depart in a hurry.

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Meanings

verbshake one's hocks (third-person singular simple present shakes one's hocks, present participle shaking one's hocks, simple past shook one's hocks, past participle shaken one's hocks)

present singular third person shakes one's hocks · participle present shaking one's hocks · past shook one's hocks · participle past shaken one's hocks

  1. USdatedslangTo get moving; to depart in a hurry.

    Shake your hocks, sugar, before those bastards blow several holes in you.

    2014, Eugenia Riley, Wanted Across Time
    1 more example

    Well, we's got work to do. Finish up here, boys, we got's some miles to make. Better shake our hocks.

    2008, Jake Logan, Slocum 356: Slocum and Pearl of the Rio Grande, page 52
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