Huk
Americannoun
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a member of the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan People's Liberation Army, a Communist agrarian revolutionary group in central Luzon in the Philippines.
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a member of the Hukbalahap, an anti-Japanese resistance group in central Luzon during World War II.
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Etymology
Origin of Huk
Shortening of Tagalog hukbo army
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Some shrug off the threat, saying that if there is a strike, everyone will die anyway, said Huk, who worries for his friends.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
The family of Yurii Huk, 41, including his daughter, Darynka, 8, his niece and other relatives, during his funeral outside Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church in Lviv on May 16.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
Defending champion "Bomber" and his partner Mun Seong Wong, or "MMA," will go up against veterans Chris "Huk" Loranger and "M.C.," whose real name is Jang Min Chul.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2015
Last week, in rugged mountains near the border of Bulacan and Quezon Provinces, the Philippine 12th Battalion Combat team surprised a camp of 20 Huk guerrillas.
From Time Magazine Archive
It popped into normality about two hundred thousand miles out from the Huk home-world.
From A Matter of Importance by Leinster, Murray
Assuming that Taruc was dead, however, most Filipinos also assumed that Communists Balgos and Capadocia had taken command of the Huks, found little comfort in the change.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the thousands of armed Huks who once terrorized the islands, only a few hundred remain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quirino, asserting bitterly that "no quarter will be shown" the Huks, may have taken some satisfaction this week in confirming a widely circulated report: Rebel Leader Taruc, he said, had indeed died recently.
From Time Magazine Archive
He knew what they were, and his spine crawled at the thought of what would happen if the Huks found out.
From A Matter of Importance by Leinster, Murray
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