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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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
In January 1951, a Philippine Army patrol in a brush with a Huk band found a blood-stained musette bag containing Pomeroy's passport and some papers in his handwriting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From The Hohokam Dig by Theodore Pratt
At the height of the insurgency in 1950-51, the Huks had an estimated 20,000 well-organized men under arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the thousands of armed Huks who once terrorized the islands, only a few hundred remain.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the late 1940s and early '50s, the Huks nearly tipped over the Manila government before they were decimated and pushed back into the hinterlands by Ramon Magsaysay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Navy, lit out for the local headquarters of the rebel Huks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interpreter translated, and the Huks muttered astonishedly among themselves.
From A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster
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