hoick

American  

[hoik] / hoɪk /

Or hoik

verb (used with object)

hoicked, hoicking

1. to pull, throw, or move (something), often upward, with effort or force.

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noun

1. Cricket. a disorganized hit to the ball, especially one that sends it toward the side of the field behind the batsman.

hoick British  

/ hɔɪk /

verb

1. informal to rise or raise abruptly and sharply

   She hoicked her dress above her knees

2. informal to clear the throat and spit

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Etymology

Origin of hoick

C20: perhaps a variant of hike

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

hoick hoicked hoicking

"They buy it on these online market places and then hoick up the prices but it's devaluing the stuff that is actually handmade," she complained.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Eventually, Ghulam was able to hoick Joe Root to the mid-wicket boundary, reaching three figures from 192 balls, celebrating with high emotion in the direction of the home dressing room.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024

GMT15:22 35 min: Begovic, with the ball at his feet, looks to hoick clear.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2015

Who really should score the second one, but his weak hoick towards an unguarded net is hacked away by Mikuckis.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2015

But I'll be waiting to be summoned, and I'll come like a shot as soon as you hoick me out.

From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

Curran first had captain Dasun Shanaka caught at mid-off before Maheesh Theekshana hoicked one straight down long-on's throat.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

Matt Henry hoicked the captain to deep square leg, Smith pulled to Pope to fall for 42 and O'Rourke was the final man to fall to Stokes' bouncers.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

The ball is immediately hoicked into the stand.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2020

But Bradley, with his new short putter, the broom-handle hoicked out of the window, pops his missable five-footer into the cup.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2015

Their want of swing, their rounded backs, and "hoicked" finish they carry with them into a rowing-boat.

From Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann

Ireland earn a corner on the right after hoicking it forward, but Hendrick’s clever low fizzing kick, which finds Whelan on the right-hand corner of the six-yard box, is miscontrolled.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2015

Stop publicly, audibly, sickeningly sucking it down the back of your throat or hoicking it into a handkerchief and then carrying on turning the collectively-owned pages with your damp, smeared hands.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2015

BST16:11 Pal Andre Helland has just missed a golden chance for Norway, bursting clean through down the middle but leaning back and hoicking a dreadful shot over the bar with only the keeper to beat.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2015

Extracting shale gas is more disruptive than hoicking other hydrocarbons out of the ground—far more wells must be sunk than are needed to produce the same quantity of conventional gas.

From Economist ● Nov. 24, 2011

"Yes," Sir William indulged her, "I should as soon have thought of hoicking up my bed."

From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

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