Definition of pock
:a pustule in an eruptive disease (such as smallpox);
also
:a spot suggesting such a pustule
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Examples of pock in a Sentence
noticed strange pocks on his torso
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Big Bop Pop’s got his five-buck shop Chock-a-block stocked with stuff that’s hocked, Watches stopped at the two o’clock, Hockey puck hermit crabs, legs pock-marked.
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Big Bop Pop’s got his five-buck shop Chock-a-block stocked with stuff that’s hocked, Watches stopped at the two o’clock, Hockey puck hermit crabs, legs pock-marked.
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The move will increase annual revenue for teams at the expense of a slight aesthetic pock-mark.
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Subsequent kings and then the British dug more, so that a census in 1986 counted 389 lakes, spread like pock marks across the face of Bangalore.
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Origin and Etymology of pock
Middle English pokke, from Old English pocc; akin to Middle Low German & Middle Dutch pocke pock
Definition of pock
Examples of pock in a Sentence
one of the many craters that pock the moon's surface
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They are funnel-shaped, resembling a shower head, with the flat surface pocked with a dozen holes large enough to stick a finger in.
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She and her companions gaze over a Mars-like landscape pocked with bubbling, boiling mud pots, hissing steam vents and sticky red soil.
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Those included pinhole cameras, constructed of recycled paper towel rolls, paper and foil, and pinhole viewers, made of index cards pocked with tiny openings.
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Up Route 120 in north-central Pennsylvania, in an old logging town amid a seemingly endless swath of state forests pocked with hunting camps and one-lane bridges, sits one of the most isolated hospitals in the state.
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Bird nest detritus has blown down, all around the cliffs, pocked by fox prints…
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Two bullet holes pocked the driver's side door, two more on the rear trunk area and one in the front windshield.
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But these crunchy-good, breaded orbs are obviously of the pork variety (not made with chicken, like at Basque eateries in the Valley), with a molten béchamel filling pocked with noticeable chunks of smoky ham.
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The Sync 3 infotainment system is great in its simplicity, its touchscreen response, and its intuitive nature, but the space below it—pocked with additional, hard climate and radio controls—
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First Known Use of pock
1841
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Definition of pock for English Language Learners
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: to make holes in or marks on (something)
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