Huk
noun
a member of the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan People's Liberation Army, a Communist agrarian revolutionary group in central Luzon in the Philippines.
Huks
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pluralof Huk.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Huks have set up their own courts, which are the law of the land in broad stretches of central Luzon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Quirino, asserting bitterly that "no quarter will be shown" the Huks, may have taken some satisfaction this week in confirming a widely circulated report: Rebel Leader Taruc, he said, had indeed died recently.
From Time Magazine Archive
By 1954 Magsaysay had quelled the Huks, and won himself the presidency.
From Time Magazine Archive
They'd even handled the Huks in time gone by—which in still earlier times would have been called a space war and put down in all the history books.
From A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster
