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hox or hocks, to grab something
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2012/06/09 - 4:03pm
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I think the origins are likely to be in "hawks" something. Hawks are raptors, from the latin root word to grab. If someone hawks something, they grab it like a hawk.

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2012/06/17 - 8:13pm
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My source says it's "first recorded 1859 in American English as in hock, which meant both 'in debt' and 'in prison', from the Dutch hok 'jail, pen, doghouse, hutch, hovel'.   The verb is 1878, from the noun."

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