in hock

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in hock

- Can be traced to the card game faro, in which the last card in the box was called the hocketty card; when a player bet on a card that ended up in hock, he was at a disadvantage and was himself in hock and at risk of losing his bets.

See also related terms for losing.

Translations

pignorato

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as in big fancy wine glass, not as in hock up a loogie.

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There's a kind of emotional as well as social nihilism in Hocks's insidious work, a sense of the nothingness of it all, which one can only tolerate with humor.

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