Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pawnshop.
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- noun US, rare A
pawnshop .
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Examples
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It was a long haul to Jerry Church's hockshop, but Snim had a gold and pearl pocket-pianino up there and he was hoping to cadge Church into advancing another sovereign on it.
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He gets to the Luisenstrasse and the hockshop just before closing time, and manages to raise a little, baloney for a day or two maybe, on the zoot.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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