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hoes

American  
[hohz] / hoʊz /

noun

  1. the plural of hoe or ho.


Example Sentences

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Zoe Hoes adopted her eight-year-old daughter Gabriella when she was a baby.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2025

Hoes said her son told the officer: “I’m not getting out of my mother’s car. I didn’t do anything.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023

Hoes was recalled from Triple-A Fresno and had two hits.

From Washington Times • Jul. 12, 2015

After waiting nervously on hold, Hoes plunked down $10,000 for two trip packages to suburban Dallas so he and his wife can see the Packers play in the for the first time in 13 years.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2011

Men were laboring with Mattocks & Axes & Picks & rustic Grubbing Hoes — & together they digged out & built up the Breastworks & Redoubts at the Eminence of the Hill.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson