The Spotlight: Microsoft Hearts Seinfeld
The Spotlight: Microsoft Hearts Seinfeld
In this episode: iPhone 3g Woes, the Palm Treo Pro unveiled, Google Android Phone revealed, Samsung Omnia "unboxed", an exoskeleton motorcycle, Photo-realistic CGI, Botnet goes down and Explorer 8 to get "porn mode". Plus Jerry Seinfeld to hock Windows.
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porn mode, sioux term: "surfs with a proxy"
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Hawk
Hawk\, v. t. [Akin to D. hauker a hawker, G. h["o]ken, h["o]cken, to higgle, to retail, h["o]ke, h["o]ker, a higgler, huckster. See Huckster.] To offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle; as, to hawk goods or pamphlets.
His works were hawked in every street. --Swift.
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hock Audio Help /h?k/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hok] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
?verb (used with object)
1. pawn.
?noun
2. the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
3. the condition of owing; debt: After the loan was paid, he was finally out of hock.
[Origin: 1855?60, Americanism; < D hok kennel, sty, pen, (informal) miserable place to live, prison]
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hocker, noun
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hock3 Audio Help /h?k/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hok] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
?verb (used with object)
1. pawn.
?noun
2. the state of being deposited or held as security; pawn: She was forced to put her good jewelry in hock.
3. the condition of owing; debt: After the loan was paid, he was finally out of hock.
[Origin: 1855?60, Americanism; < D hok kennel, sty, pen, (informal) miserable place to live, prison]
?Related forms
hocker, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
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hawk 2 Audio Help (hôk) Pronunciation Key
v. hawked, hawk·ing, hawks
v. intr.
To peddle goods aggressively, especially by calling out.
v. tr.
To peddle (goods) aggressively, especially by calling out.
[Middle English hauken, back-formation from hauker; see hawker.]
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