A word with two very different lives: in its respectable sense, a hocker is simply someone who pawns or hocks items at a pawnshop.
A word with two very different lives: in its respectable sense, a hocker is simply someone who pawns or hocks items at a pawnshop. In its grosser slang incarnation, a hocker is a thick wad of phlegm that someone hacks up and spits out — the kind of productive cough result that makes bystanders wince. The phlegm meaning likely derives from the Yiddish/German 'hucken' (to cough up), while the pawn meaning comes from Dutch 'hok' (debt). Both are in wide use.
He left a hocker on the pavement outside the pub, earning a withering look from the woman walking behind him.
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One who hocks or pawns an item.
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(slang) A wad of phlegm spat out by hocking.
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