Huk

American  

[hook] / huk /

noun

plural

Huks

1. a member of the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan People's Liberation Army, a Communist agrarian revolutionary group in central Luzon in the Philippines.

2. a member of the Hukbalahap, an anti-Japanese resistance group in central Luzon during World War II.

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Etymology

Origin of Huk

Shortening of Tagalog hukbo army

Example Sentences

The family of Yurii Huk, 41, including his daughter, Darynka, 8, his niece and other relatives, during his funeral outside Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church in Lviv on May 16.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Defending champion "Bomber" and his partner Mun Seong Wong, or "MMA," will go up against veterans Chris "Huk" Loranger and "M.C.," whose real name is Jang Min Chul.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2015

Yuen has followed Huk since college and is rooting for the 26-year-old Canadian gamer.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2015

Since he took office last September, 41-year-old Secretary of Defense Ramon Magsaysay has realized that pacifying Luzon's 15,000 Communist Huk rebels is more than a military problem.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah-we-lah, determined but grim, braced his body and shouted to the dogs—"Huk, Huk, Huk," and then to us he said, "Aga-Ka!"

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.