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  • verb Present participle of hoik.

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Examples

  • If you 'die' and a buddy is available, they will come rescue you, hoiking you up on their back and carting you off somewhere safer so you can patch up and help you take out the last few guys.

    War stories from Mosate Soleo Ben Abraham 2008

  • Nobody seems quite sure what this covers – the funny glasses are paid for separately – but we've paid up, hoiking UK takings up by 8% from 2009.

    20 things we learned in 2010 2010

  • What with Britney Spears going ga-ga of late by hoiking her mimsy out and beating up cars and going bald and trying to kill herself while declaring herself to be the most evil entity in the universe, it's hard to remember all the good times that Britney Spears and Kevin Federline shared as a married couple before Britney decided to dump Kevin.

    Britney Spears Divorces Kevin Federline With $1 Million 2007

  • Admittedly it's a strange love that involves hoiking young Britney Spears around all kinds of talent agencies when she should have been enjoying her childhood, encouraging her to dress as a fetishised schoolgirl ideal and sing about liking domestic violence as a teenager and then selling Britney Spears' secrets to magazines as soon as things started going south, but it still sort of counts as a form of love.

    Inside New Britney Spears Book: Just Some Stuff About Her Mum 2007

  • A similar cup appeared as if by magic in my own hand, and I smiled in gratitude at the butler; I hadn't been hoiking logs about, but the long, hot ride had worn me out.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • Here, "he said hoiking out a lump of evil smelling meat from a bowl," have some Vegan Rhino's cutlet.

    The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996

  • Here, "he said hoiking out a lump of evil smelling meat from a bowl," have some Vegan Rhino's cutlet.

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979

  • Steve Davies, and some full-blooded hoiking at the death by Paul Collingwood and Michael

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Steve Davies, and some full-blooded hoiking at the death by Paul Collingwood and Michael

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Karen has got everything right, from accessorising with turquoise (which compliments her carroty tones), to wearing a rich shade of plum (which brings out the porcelain in her skin), to hoiking up that skirt (which let's us ogle her ridiculously long legs)...

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

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