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 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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depositing
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  • Porter, who was wearing forest-green DaddyGoFish waders, glided into the waist-deep rapids and walked a line between them, periodically dipping small plastic bottles into the water and then depositing them into a mesh bag.
    Katie Thornton, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The waterfront would be transformed into a large marina, with piers and floating docks off the shore by the old Flipper Dolphin lagoon theater and wrapping around most of the waterfront, along with racks for storing smaller boats on land and heavy machinery depositing them in the water as needed.
    Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Hocking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hocking. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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