Usually means: Joint in hind leg, animals.
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  1. hock: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hock, hock, hock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hock, hock, hock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hock: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hock, hock: Wordnik
  7. hock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hock, Hock: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. hock: Wiktionary
  10. hock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. hock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. hock: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. hock: Dictionary.com
  14. hock (n.1), hock (n.2), hock (n.3): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. hock: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Hock (anatomy), Hock (wine), Hock (zoology), Hock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Hock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. hock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. hock: Rhymezone
  20. Hock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. hock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. hock: Free Dictionary
  23. hock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. hock: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Hock: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. hock: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hock: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hock, hock, hock, hock, hock, hock, hock: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hock: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. hock: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Hock: Sports Definitions

(Note: See hocked as well.)

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noun:  A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
noun:  (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
noun:  Meat from that part of a food animal.
noun:  (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
verb:  (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
noun:  Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
noun:  Debt.
noun:  Installment purchase.
noun:  Prison.
verb:  (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
noun:  (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
verb:  Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”) [(transitive) To hunt with a hawk.]
noun:  Alternative form of hawk (“cough”) [A diurnal predatory bird of the family Accipitridae, smaller than an eagle.]

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