Hickok

[ hik-ok ]

/ ˈhɪk ɒk /

noun

James Butler "Wild Bill", 1837–76, U.S. frontiersman.

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Hichens, hic jacet, hick, hickey, hick-joint pointing, Hickok, Hickok, Wild Bill, hickory, “Hickory, Dickory, Dock”, Hickory Hills, hickory pine

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Example sentences from the Web for Hickok

Hickok was acquitted, and it caused a public outcry of injustice.
Not This Again: The Ghost of Past Injustices, From the Draft Riots to Trayvon|Herb Boyd|July 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Hickok was on trial for manslaughter, and the judge gave the jury two instructions.
Not This Again: The Ghost of Past Injustices, From the Draft Riots to Trayvon|Herb Boyd|July 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And the case of James “Wild Bill” Hickok in 1865 bears some similarity to what occurred in the Zimmerman-Trayvon case.
Not This Again: The Ghost of Past Injustices, From the Draft Riots to Trayvon|Herb Boyd|July 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Wherefore, in an hour of aboriginal commerce Mr. Hickok encouraged a hirsute luxuriance in the name of trade.
The Sunset Trail|Alfred Henry Lewis

"Wild Bill" Hickok was perhaps the best known "character" in Cheyenne in the 70's.
The Prairie Schooner|William Francis Hooker
Humanity talks fifty times where once it shoots, and Mr. Hickok was not ignorant of the race in its verbal ferocities.
The Sunset Trail|Alfred Henry Lewis
Hickok quietly declined to take the two remaining trials open to him.
Frank Merriwell's Races|Burt L. Standish
The message was a long one, by which Mr. Hickok deduced it to be important.
The Sunset Trail|Alfred Henry Lewis

British Dictionary definitions for Hickok

Hickok

/ (ˈhɪkɒk) /

noun

James Butler, known as Wild Bill Hickok. 1837–76, US frontiersman and marshal

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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