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| hoke [ hōk ] (past and past participle hoked, present participle hok·ing, 3rd person present singular hokes) |
transitive verb |
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make more dramatic: to introduce highly melodramatic or broadly comic features into a story, play, or speech, in order to captivate an audience
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| [Early 20th century. Back-formation <hokum] |
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