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hoke

[ hohk ]

verb (used with object)

hoked, hoking.
  1. to alter or manipulate so as to give a deceptively or superficially improved quality or value (usually followed by up ):

    a political speech hoked up with phony statistics.



noun

hoke

/ əʊ /

verb

  1. trusually foll byup to overplay (a part, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hoke1

1930–35; back formation from hokey or hokum
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hoke1

C20: perhaps from hokum
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CBS‘ “Me Myself and I” borrows a structural element from last season’s breakout hit, “This Is Us” - the multi-time-frame format - and then hokes it up.

"For a new hoke to hang Judas, six pence."

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