hoik (countable and uncountable, plural hoiks)
(cricket, countable) A wild hook shot played without style.
(NZ) Sputum.
hoik (third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked)
(cricket) To play such a shot.
(informal, transitive) To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
(informal, transitive) To throw something out.
(NZ) To spit.
• Hiko, hoki
Source: Wiktionary
26 January 2025
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
