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hawk

Definition

  • noun: a bird that kills other birds and animals for food
  • noun: any of numerous diurnal birds of prey belonging to a suborder (Falcones of the order Falconiformes) and including all the smaller members of this group
  • verb: to offer (something) for sale especially by calling out or by going from one person to another
  • verb: to hunt birds by means of a trained hawk
  • usually + 'up'
  • synonyms: peddle, jack, eyas

Examples

  • The storeowner 'watches those teenagers like a hawk' whenever they come in because she's afraid they're going to steal something.

  • The 'hawks' voted against the proposed cuts in military spending.

  • Vendors were 'hawking' soda and hot dogs.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) We have the same sport in England. With hawks like this? Watch. Kill. You call that a hawk? I think we have hawks to equal that one. Here. Bring up Long Claw. Look, nowthere's a hunting bird. You again. Whose bird is that? It's mine. A slave with a hunting hawk? I found her frozen to a tree. Where'd you steal it? Sandpiper was with me when I found her. The perfect witness... (..)
    1958 The Vikings