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hockshop

American  
[hok-shop] / ˈhɒkˌʃɒp /

noun

  1. a pawnshop.


Etymology

Origin of hockshop

First recorded in 1870–75; hock 3 + shop

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Composer Schwartz, in a hockshop ballad called Mine 'Til Monday and in a furniture-shop fandango called Look Who's Dancing, lets rip with oldfashioned, foam-on-the-beer high spirits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bums, priests, con men, whining housewives, burglars, waitresses, children and bewildered ordinary citizens who people Dragnet seem as sorrowfully genuine as old pistols in a hockshop window.

From Time Magazine Archive

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