Examples of use of hock
1. Blair‘s timbre is still a light hock, a fluting tenor.
2. No surprise there, given that Defra, Whitehall‘s worst–run department, is virtually in hock to farming.
3. Being in hock to Bill Cash et al will damage him in Opposition.
4. British policy is in hock to Blair‘s Nato machismo, and early withdrawal is hard to imagine.
5. Anyone starting this autumn is likely to finish university in hock to the tune of 20K.