Huk
Americannoun
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a member of the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan People's Liberation Army, a Communist agrarian revolutionary group in central Luzon in the Philippines.
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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
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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
For breakfast, Huk and M.C. fueled up at Chic Fil-A, preparing for a full eight hours of matches.
From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2015
Huk brings in about $180,000 from competitions and sponsors, such as Monster beverages and HyperX.
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
That they were not squad ships but targets—and not even robot targets—set out for the missile rockets of the Huk planet to expend themselves on.
From A Matter of Importance by Leinster, Murray
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