hoick
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
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informal to rise or raise abruptly and sharply
She hoicked her dress above her knees
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informal to clear the throat and spit
Etymology
Origin of hoick
C20: perhaps a variant of hike
Example Sentences
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"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
Two pros. sometimes make a fair pair, because they may happen to "hoick" along in the same style.
From Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann
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
Ronnie Moran hoicked a late penalty deep into the Kop, and Trevor Morris’s side were in the semis.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2018
A ball hoicked down the inside-left channel by Albrighton.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2016
And now you have hoicked me out, and my feet are cold.'
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
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
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
Elliot had to make do with second spot, but got his own back later in the day, winning the one-handed lift – a one-off, this event – by hoicking 71kg to Jensen's paltry 57.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2012
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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