Look at the honkers on that dame! 2. Go
to honked.honky and honkey; honkie; hunky 1. n.
a Caucasian. (Black. Not necessarily de-
rogatory. Probably a pronunciation vari-
ant ofhunky.) The honkies are taking
over this neighborhood. Some honky
was around asking for you. 2. mod. in the
manner of a Caucasian; white-like.
Where’d you get that honky car? That’s
honky music. I want to hear soul.
honyock[“hanjak] n. someone, usually a
male, who acts like a peasant; a crude or
unsophisticated person; a rustic oaf.
(Old. Also a rude or playful term of ad-
dress.) Steve seems like such a honyock
until you get to know him. Come here,
you silly honyock.
hooch and hootch[hutS] n. hard liquor;
any alcoholic beverage, especially if illic-
itly obtained. Let’s go guzzle some
hooch. More hootch for you?
hooched (up)mod. alcohol intoxicated.
Sally is too hooched to drive. She got
herself hooched up and couldn’t give her
talk.
hoocher and hootchern. a drunkard.
Ernie isn’t a hoocher, you can say that for
him. A hootcher staggered in and stag-
gered right out again.
hooch headGo to hooch hound.
hooch hound and hooch headn. a
drunkard. Jed is a classic hooch hound.
He lives for the stuff. The party turned
into a drinking session for hooch heads.
hood 1. n. a hoodlum. A couple of hoods
hassled us on the street. That hood
should be behind bars. 2. n. the neigh-
borhood; the ghetto; any neighborhood.
Back in the hood, Bob’s considered an
important guy.
hood ratn. someone who hangs around the
[black] neighborhood. Sam’s just a
wimpy hood rat. He never sees any action.
hooey[“hui] n. nonsense. The whole
newspaper is nothing but hooey today.
What’s all this hooey about getting a new
car?
hoofern. a (professional) dancer. Clare
was a hoofer when she was younger and
lighter. She was a hoofer on Broadway.
hoofingn. walking; running. My car’s in
the shop, so I’m hoofing for a few days.
Two or three of the kids were hoofing
around the mall, so I joined them.
hoof it 1. tv. to run away. I saw them
coming and hoofed it home. Lefty
hoofed it when he saw the uniform. 2. in.
to walk instead of ride. My car’s bro-
ken down, so I had to hoof it to work to-
day. Let’s hoof it over to the library.
hoo-ha[“huha] 1. n. a commotion. What
is all this hoo-ha about? A deer created
quite a hoo-ha by running frantically
through the department store. 2. n. non-
sense. What is all this hoo-ha about
your leaving the company? Stop talking
hoo-ha and tell the truth.
hook 1. tv. to cheat someone. Watch the
clerk in that store. He might try to hook
you. They hooked me on the car deal.- tv. to steal something. Lefty hooked
a couple of candy bars just for the hell of
it. What did they hook last night? 3. tv.
to addict someone (to something). (Not
necessarily drugs.) The constant use of
bicarb hooked him to the stuff. The pot
hooked him. 4. n. the grade of C. I
didn’t study at all and I still got a hook!
I got three hooks and a D this semester. - tv. to earn or pullthe grade of C on
something in school. History? I hooked
it without any trouble. If I can just hook
algebra, I’ll stay off probation.
hooked (on someone or something)
mod. preferring someone or something;
enamored of someone or something.
I’m really hooked on chocolate anything.
Sam is hooked on Mary for good.
hooked (on something) 1. mod. cheated.
I really got hooked on this travel deal.
You were hooked all right. 2. mod. ad-
dicted (to a drug). Gert is hooked on
horse. Everybody knows she is hooked.
hookern. a prostitute. (Usually a female,
but of either sex. This has to do with
hookingmen into a situation where they
can be exploited sexually or robbed. It
hooker