hockshop
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hockshop
Example Sentences
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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
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
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