as in pawned
to leave as a guarantee of repayment of a loan
the prince had to hock the family jewels to pay his gambling debts
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deposited
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These checks were then deposited into multiple different accounts, police said.—
Erik S. Hanley,
jsonline.com,
19 Sep. 2025 -
The team deposited the remarkable find at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Paleontology, where Tsogtbaatar is also affiliated.—
Jack Tamisiea,
Scientific American,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Hocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hocked. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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