hockshop
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hockshop
Example Sentences
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Junk fills the Claben hockshop from floor to rafters: one false step and the unwary visitor is crushed under an avalanche of "pianos . . . harps and trombones . . . baby carriages, women's bicycles . . . mattresses . . . top hats . . . bottle baskets."
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.
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In Osaka, Japan, Hockshop Proprietor Hiroshi Ueda, president of the local pawnbrokers' association, was fined 500,000 yen and kicked out of the cartel for charging customers 6% interest a month, a rate out of line with the customary bite of 9%.
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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.
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