"Besides, " he added, mopping his brow with a fold of his plaid, -if ye pass out, you'll be less trouble to hoik about. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
But this wasn't the time to be rehashing the past, if Cutter had found her, the others couldn't be far behind and it was time to hoik up her robes and run. From Wordnik.com. [Let's get extemporaneous (a contest)] Reference
With her ballsy no-nonsense approach to fashion, she will inspire children all over the country to hoik their protruding guts over a set of combat trousers. From Wordnik.com. [You There! Be In A Morrissey Advert!] Reference
Much as I despise Wikipedia, I despise far more those pirate sites that just hoik the entire lot in wholesale, with cavalier disregard for formatting and storage space. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CORPORATE ETYMOLOGIES.] Reference
In reality, you have to get hold of his head, hoik it back as you would with a sheep, and just keep on cutting until you've gone right through the windpipe and the head has just about come away in your hands. From Wordnik.com. [Bravo-Two-Zero]
As a non-coppa, can any of you officers of the law tell me roughly how long it will take before the first compo claims are launched for rsi as a result of having to hoik one of those ludicrous megaphones around??. From Wordnik.com. [What A Bunch Of Plonkers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Marples Public School Slang 31 Oik, hoik: very widely used and of some age; at Cheltenham (1897) it meant simply a working man, but at Christ's Hospital (1885) it implied someone who spoke Cockney, and at Bootham (1925) someone who spoke with a Yorkshire accent. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: OIK.] Reference
And while we're on the subject of his Dad Lord, I give thanks for the delicious sight of that craven, racist, traitorous, class-ridden old fool having to hoik his withered Yankee hams out of the comfy billion-dollar no-show job the Carlyle Group found for him, in a desperate attempt to save a dynasty built on graft, treason, war crimes and good old-fashioned brown-nosing. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Hendra: A Thanksgiving Prayer for Dick Cheney's Heart -- and a Few Other Favorite Things] Reference
Udwatte tries the one handed hoik over covers again. From Wordnik.com. [Kottu] Reference
We dig a hole in the back yard, hoik them in and then do a bit of Morris dancing round the mound?. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Much to their disappointment it was Strauss, bowled trying to hoik Saeed Ajmal to cow corner, who went first. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Not only was I a chocko (hoik, ptooie) but I was from a poofter Officer Training unit, and I talked posh as well. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Ireland my nation says he (hoik! phthook!) never be up to those bloody (there's the last of it) Jerusalem (ah!) cuckoos. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
That's the first real sign of aggression from Hussey, following three dot balls and a two with a huge hoik over mid-wicket. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
At the weekend, if it's still fine, I will hoik out a 1Gb and put in one of the 2Gb sticks, to give 3Gb and see how it goes. From Wordnik.com. [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference
When Younis missed an aimless hoik to be bowled by Simon Cook, it seemed almost unthinkable that Surrey would emerge with respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Cricinfo news from Cricinfo] Reference
He tries an almighty hoik over mid-on that doesn't get anywhere near the middle of the bat, but still has enough on it to loop over the inner ring for two. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Bell then flips it fine for three, before Pietersen attempts a massive hoik to a perfectly ordinary delivery from Watson and bottom-ends it down to deep square leg for one. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Zoe managed a number of helpings, while I tried some fruit and something bready and then ran to hoik it all up again in the sink of what Nabakov had promised would be the most spectacular toilets in Melbourne. From Wordnik.com. [Ampersand Duck] Reference
By doing that they're showing they're more than willing to spend money, but if you hoik the price of music up to the point where it's more expensive that a DVD containing a film which costs FAR more to produce, then it serves them right. From Wordnik.com. [Betanews] Reference
Instead of watching cackling lasses with fake-tan displaying their vaginas at some drone in slacks whilst being egged on by Paddy McGuinness, Lambing Live is essentially one long close up and the backside of a ewe with bearded farmers waiting to hoik out baby sheep all steaming and damp. From Wordnik.com. [TV Scoop] Reference
Ireland my nation says he (hoik! phthook!) never be up to those bloody (there’s the last of it) Jerusalem (ah!) cuckoos. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
It's entirely incongruous with the rest of my wardrobe and, indeed, the rest of my life - and, of course, I had to be shown how to carry it because, being the little suburbanite that I am, I've been trying to fill it with nappies and hoik it up on my shoulder and you're supposed to load it with some small yappy creature that is more akin to a skinned rat than a dog and hang it casually over the crook of your arm. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Another one for the pub generals to hoik onboard. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
To Nights in White Satin is quite a hoik. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine -] Reference
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