hoe
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
hoe (plural hoes)
- An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
- 2009, TRU TV, 28 March:
- It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.
- 2009, TRU TV, 28 March:
- The horned or piked dogfish.
- French: binette, houe
- German: Hacke
- Italian: zappa
- Portuguese: enxada
- Russian: тя́пка
- Spanish: azada, azadón
hoe (hoes, present participle hoeing; past and past participle hoed)
- (ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
- to hoe the earth in a garden
- Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
- I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
- (transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
- to hoe corn
hoe (plural hoes)
- (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho.
- 2002, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap ↗
- […] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (and hoe) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination
- 2003, Dan Harrington, The Good Eye ↗
- At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm
- 2002, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap ↗
- See also Thesaurus:prostitute
hoe (hoes, present participle hoeing; past and past participle hoed)
- (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho.
- 2003, Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp ↗
- Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.
- 2003, Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp ↗
hoe (plural hoes)
A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
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