- [countable]
the middle joint of an animal’s back leg （动物后腿的）跗关节 - [uncountable, countable] (British English)
a German white wine 莱茵白葡萄酒 - (also knuckle)[uncountable, countable]
a piece of meat from the lower part of an animal’s leg, especially a pig （动物后腿的）跗关节 - [uncountable] (informal)
if something that you own is in hock, you have exchanged it for money but hope to buy it back later 典当；抵押
Word Originnoun sense 1 and noun sense 3 late Middle English: variant of hough. noun sense 2abbreviation of obsolete hockamore, alteration of German Hochheimer (Wein) ‘(wine) from Hochheim’. noun sense 4 mid 19th cent. (in the phrase in hock): from Dutch hok ‘hutch, prison, debt’.