Huk

[ hook ]

/ huk /

noun, plural Huks.

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

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

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Origin of Huk

shortening of Tagalog hukbo army

Example sentences from the Web for huk

He led Huk to the table set in front of the tent, where he brought out a portable typewriter and opened and set it up.
The Hohokam Dig|Theodore Pratt
At a fourth place barely eighty thousand miles short of collision with the Huk world.
A Matter of Importance|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
So the police matter-of-factly tried to incorporate the Huk culture into the human.
A Matter of Importance|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
If anything from a Huk missile rocket to the salvage ship Aldeb approached, however, the sound would be distinctive.
A Matter of Importance|William Fitzgerald Jenkins

He sat on one chair, and Huk, gingerly holding his aspergill before him as though to protect himself, sat on the other.
The Hohokam Dig|Theodore Pratt