Huk

[hook]

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.

Origin of Huk

shortening of Tagalog hukbo army

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All, including Huk who left the table, stared with fright at it and at the rifle.
The Hohokam Dig
Theodore Pratt
I asked Huk if they can stay with us in our time, at least for a while.
The Hohokam Dig
Theodore Pratt
At the moment they were already within the Huk home-planet's atmosphere.
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
They painstakingly tried to arrange a sub-precinct station on the largest Huk home planet, with Huk cops in charge.
A Matter of Importance
William Fitzgerald Jenkins