Bock

or bock

[ bok ]

noun

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

bock

/ bəʊk; bok /

verb

1. See boke
   a variant spelling of boke

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bock¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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Semper and Bock believe that it had been a Chinese material long before it reached Europe.

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Von Bock and myself—we were then fellow-pages—crept through the whole saloon in search of the garter.

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I shall throw up the game, tender my resignation to the duke, and congratulate von Bock on his accession to the premiership.

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The two principal kinds of double beer are the Bock-beer and the Salvator-beer.

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The latter began his conversation with the remark: 'Allons boire un bock!'

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