Huk
Americannoun
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Huks
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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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Some shrug off the threat, saying that if there is a strike, everyone will die anyway, said Huk, who worries for his friends.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
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
A full colonel, he had under his direct command 25 bodyguards and 400 other Huk guerrillas.
From Time Magazine Archive
He becomes the supporter of Sudder ul Huk Khân, now that the infamy of the treatment he received could no longer be concealed from the Council.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Of the thousands of armed Huks who once terrorized the islands, only a few hundred remain.
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
President Roxas, who died in office of a heart attack, was succeeded by Elpidio Quirino, a well-meaning but weak lawyer who was unable to come to grips with either government corruption or the Huks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old scourges of the islands, the Huks, have been so cut up by government raids that they now amount to little more than a Mafia-like bunch of "protection" racketeers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Huks had got together and built themselves a fightin' fleet then, though.
From A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster
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