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hocksnounpl. of hock a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodysome lowlife who had been in and out of hock most of his adult life bastilles, big houses(slang), bridewells, brigs, calabooses, cans, clinks(slang), coolers, coops, guardrooms, holds, hoosegows, jailhouses, jails, joints(slang), jugs, lockups, nicks(British slang), penitentiaries, pens, pokeys(slang), prisons, quods(British slang), slammers, slams, stirs(slang), stockades, tolbooths(Scottish) bull pens, cages, cells, holes, tanksblocks, wardsglasshouses(British), guardhouses, hulksconcentration camps, gulags, labor camps, prison camps, stalags, work campsdungeons, keeps, oubliettesreformatories, reform schools, training schools outsides to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loanthe prince had to hock the family jewels to pay his gambling debts pawns, pledges deposits, mortgagesbonds buys (back), redeems, wins (back) |