HOCKING Synonyms: 8 Similar and Opposite Words

hocking

verb

Definition of hocking

present participle of hock

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 The page gave a deep snort, hocking a chartreuse wad against the root of the nightingale’s birch. — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025 Shein is far from the first online retailer to run into trouble with third-party vendors hocking controversial wares or flouting policy standards. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025

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Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, drained the actress emotionally and financially, even pawning some of her possessions and keeping others in a storage unit, her estranged mom Lesley Vogel claims.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 24 Aug. 2026
When interviewed by police in May, Weckesser allegedly admitted to stealing the ring from the home and re-shaping it before pawning it off.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

Definition of pawning

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Printing these flexible devices requires depositing two layers at once.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
But the tireless churn of his storytelling, picking up and depositing little clues of what came before, is the mark of an auteur who has barely scratched the surface of his prowess.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of depositing

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