Bock

or bock

[ bok ]

/ bɒk /

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noun

a strong, dark beer traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption the following spring.

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Also called Bock beer, bock beer

[bok] /ˈbɒk ˈbɪər/ .

Origin of Bock

First recorded in 1855–60; from German Bock, Bockbier literally, “buck beer,” perhaps by misdivision of Eimbecker Bier (as if ein Bockbier “one Bockbier”) beer of Eimbeck in Lower Saxony, Germany

Words nearby Bock

Boccioni, bocconcini, Bochdalek's hernia, Boche, Bochum, Bock, bock beer, bockedy, Bockscar, bocor, bod

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How to use Bock in a sentence

Solomon recounts a recurring Socratic dialogue between Robbins and Stein, Bock, and Harnick.
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Veterans of old and more recent wars crowded around the bar downing shots of Regal Crown Black, chased by Shiner Bock.
Black Hawk Down’s Long Shadow|Daniel Klaidman|October 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Bock: In Berlin I saved Jewish girls, who were to be sent to the concentration camp.
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Bock says students usually notify his office of their wish for a deferral through June 1.
College Can Wait…And Wait|Kathleen Kingsbury|April 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST

Semper and Bock believe that it had been a Chinese material long before it reached Europe.
Needlework As Art|Marian Alford
Von Bock and myself—we were then fellow-pages—crept through the whole saloon in search of the garter.
Love and Intrigue|Friedrich Schiller
I shall throw up the game, tender my resignation to the duke, and congratulate von Bock on his accession to the premiership.
Love and Intrigue|Friedrich Schiller
The two principal kinds of double beer are the Bock-beer and the Salvator-beer.
Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864|Various
The latter began his conversation with the remark: 'Allons boire un bock!'
Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy|Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton

British Dictionary definitions for Bock

bock

/ (bok, bəʊk) /

verb, noun

a variant spelling of boke

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