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
Example Sentences
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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
That they were not squad ships but targets—and not even robot targets—set out for the missile rockets of the Huk planet to expend themselves on.
From A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster
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
According to Filipino intelligence estimates, at least 176 barrio captains, dozens of mayors, a handful of Congressmen and at least one, possibly two, provincial governors are either Huks or under Huk discipline.
From Time Magazine Archive
A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Timmy was undoubtedly more competent as a cop, but Timmy would have been in a highly emotional state with his girl on the Cerberus and that ship in the hands of the Huks.
From A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster
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