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In some senses, hock is marked as informal, colloquial, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
That night he strolled into the Palette Club about eleven o’clock, and found Trevor sitting by himself in the smoking-room drinking hock and seltzer.
The dinner that they sat down to in the fly-specked dining-room was of boiled beef and carrots, with a turgid ginger pudding to follow, though Grierson went down to the cellar himself and found some dusty bottles of hock, overlooked for years because there was no demand for it in a beer-drinking community.
noun
The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
Anyway, you only have one golden retriever, SWORDDOG, and she is already armed to the hocks.
Meat from that part of a food animal.
The hollow behind the knee.
verb
To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.