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In hock

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  1. 1
    Having been pawned.

    "Her necklace is in hock in order to cover some family expenses."

  2. 2
    Indebted. broadly, figuratively

    "The wind doesn’t stop blowing because an autocrat has a tantrum; harnessing the solar radiation that bathes our world doesn’t leave us in hock to the House of Saud."

Etymology

From Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”).

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