hocking

verb

Definition of hockingnext
present participle of hock
as in pawning
to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan the prince had to hock the family jewels to pay his gambling debts

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Recent Examples of hocking The page gave a deep snort, hocking a chartreuse wad against the root of the nightingale’s birch. — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025 Shein is far from the first online retailer to run into trouble with third-party vendors hocking controversial wares or flouting policy standards. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hocking
  1. pawning
  2. depositing
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  • Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, drained the actress emotionally and financially, even pawning some of her possessions and keeping others in a storage unit, her estranged mom Lesley Vogel claims.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • When interviewed by police in May, Weckesser allegedly admitted to stealing the ring from the home and re-shaping it before pawning it off.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Definition of pawning
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  • Covering gray means depositing enough pigment to make white or silver strands disappear into one uniform color.
    — Casey DelBasso, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The scheme reportedly involved depositing checks from accounts with insufficient funds, then withdrawing the temporarily available money, leaving the banks to absorb the losses once the checks bounced, court records show.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of depositing

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“Hocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hocking. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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