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hocknoun a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodysome lowlife who had been in and out of hock most of his adult life bastille, big house(slang), bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, clink(slang), cooler, coop, guardroom, hold, hoosegow, jail, jailhouse, joint(slang), jug, lockup, nick(British slang), pen, penitentiary, pokey(slang), prison, quod(British slang), slam, slammer, stir(slang), stockade, tolbooth(Scottish) bull pen, cage, cell, hole, tankblock, wardglasshouse(British), guardhouse, hulk(s)concentration camp, gulag, labor camp, prison camp, stalag, work campdungeon, keep, oubliettereformatory, reform school, training school outside hockverbto leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loanthe prince had to hock the family jewels to pay his gambling debts pawn, pledge deposit, mortgagebond buy (back), redeem, win (back) in 1540 |