Huk
Americannoun
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Huks
plural
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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
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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
Yuen has followed Huk since college and is rooting for the 26-year-old Canadian gamer.
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
Magsaysay has come to believe that a little government help and a few acres of land would transform Huk guerrillas into peaceful citizens.
From Time Magazine Archive
It popped into normality about two hundred thousand miles out from the Huk home-world.
From A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster
For more than two decades, the Huks have been active in what is commonly called "Huklandia," an area in Central Luzon where social and economic ills create a fertile breeding ground for discontent.
From Time Magazine Archive
One weapon is a social-reform program that aims to undercut the Huks by building schools and hospitals, repairing wells and roads, and providing land-improvement loans to farmers.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Assuming that Taruc was dead, however, most Filipinos also assumed that Communists Balgos and Capadocia had taken command of the Huks, found little comfort in the change.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Huks had a good technology, they had spaceships, and they were just beginning to expand, themselves, from their own home planet or planets.
From A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster
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