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hawk
verb- to expectorate sputum US, 1989
- — Maledicta, p. 32, 1988–1989: “Medical maledicta from San Francisco”
- to watch closely, to check out US, 1886
- All I have to do is pull around the corner where nobody can hawk the license plate. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 61, 1960
- Yeah, she looked at me like I was duck under glass and I hawked her likewise. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 77, 1973
- I’m hawkin’ the three guys at the pool table, but all I see is cue-sticks. — Elmore Leonard, After Hours, p. 170, 1979
- He’d been brought in there the time he was picked up for hawking a queer and released when the queer wouldn’t identify him. — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 19, 1980
- to make an aggressive romantic approach US, 1993
- “If you want to ask her out for a drink or something, feel free.” I said, “Thanks, but I’m not really hawking it, you know?” — Joseph Pistone, Donnie Brasco, p. 51, 1987
- — Ken “Naz” Young, Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang, p. 56, 1993
- to play US
- Those who could hawk ball were respected almost as much as those who could dress well, rap, and fight. — Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler, p. 53, 1994
- to walk fast US
Probably from the noun sense of the word as a cold winter wind. - Hawk–To walk rapidly. — James Haskins, Street Gangs, p. 149, 1974
▶ hawk the fork
(of a woman) to work as a prostitute AUSTRALIA- Daughter hawking the fork in Honkers, dirty little bitch. — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 170, 1978
▶ hawk your mutton
to work as a prostitute UK, 1937- [T]he old man used to have a soft spot for this Moira when she was on street corners ‘awkin’ the mutton. — Bernard Demsey and Kevin McNally Lock, Stock... & Two Sips, p. 288, 2000
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