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  • proper noun A surname.

Etymologies

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Variant of Hitchcock.

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Examples

  • 'Hiscock's boat was there and I said to myself: "I will go round the world one day".

    YBW News 2010

  • Always something of a tomboy, she impressed Lieutenant Commander Earl F. Hiscock of the Coast Guard Reserve—which eventually took over the unit—with her down-to-earth attitude, once turning over a wastebasket to serve as a chair in an impromptu meeting to discuss the frequent sinking of merchant vessels ferrying supplies to Europe.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Always something of a tomboy, she impressed Lieutenant Commander Earl F. Hiscock of the Coast Guard Reserve—which eventually took over the unit—with her down-to-earth attitude, once turning over a wastebasket to serve as a chair in an impromptu meeting to discuss the frequent sinking of merchant vessels ferrying supplies to Europe.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • John Hiscock talks with Maguire for the Telegraph.

    GreenCine Daily: Peter Parker goes to Tokyo. 2007

  • John Hiscock opens his interview with Wahlberg for the Telegraph with recollections of The Departed: They are a volatile couple: Wahlberg, the ex-convict and former street thug from the rough side of Boston, and Scorsese, the outspoken Italian-American former seminary student; and they both had firm ideas of how Wahlberg's scenes should be shot.

    GreenCine Daily: Shooter. 2007

  • The litigators from the firm of Hiscock and Barclay were extraordinary in their professional skill and stamina.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • The Telegraph's John Hiscock recalls his last conversation with Altman.

    GreenCine Daily: Robert Altman, 1925 - 2006. 2006

  • “Umbrella, Miss?” said Hiscock, offering Kitty an umbrella as she left the house rather later than she should have left it the following afternoon.

    The Years 2004

  • But here the door opened and Hiscock came in with a note on a salver.

    The Years 2004

  • Hiscock, the butler, to take his feet off the fender and waddle upstairs.

    The Years 2004

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