On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:26:25AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > "Hock" would appear to be a slang word of more recent origin that most
> > public-domain dictionaries, sadly. If I hock my guitar, it means I go to
> > the pawnbroker's and use it as collateral for a short-term loan.
>
> Well, it's in wordnet:
>
> v : give as a guarantee [syn: {pawn}, {soak}]Ah. I didn't have the wordnet dictionary package installed, thanks to the less-than-clear package name. -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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