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
Shein is far from the first online retailer to run into trouble with third-party vendors hocking controversial wares or flouting policy standards.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hocking
depositing
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Jackson got Baltimore on the board after Seymour issued his second leadoff walk, depositing a letter-high first-pitch fastball into the left-field bleachers to put the Orioles up 2-1.—
Evan Webeck,
Mercury News,
31 Aug. 2025
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There’s a Gambit-adjacent one that has players depositing motes while killing other teams.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Hocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hocking. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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