Individual or business that offers loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral.
Synonyms
Examples for "hockshop"
Examples for "hockshop"
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He picked up a pistol in a hockshop in L.A. and blew out Bookspan's brains.
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Wait till I send round to the hockshop.
3
I walked downstairs, and I got all the way to Sam's hockshop before it hit me.
4
That hockshop business must really pay.
5
When even a hockshop had to have this receptionist thing out there in front to show it had class.
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He bought a cornet from a pawn shop and began taking lessons.
2
Meanwhile, the pawn shop's main competitor is headed for closer scrutiny.
3
But how was Barbara to locate a pawn shop in Washington?
4
Her cheeks burned with humiliation and disgust at the very name pawn shop!
5
Ah, you do right to be driven to a pawn shop.
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At 10.30 am on Thursday, three Chinese men gathered in a tiny pawn store less than 100 metres from Macau's onion-shaped Lisboa casino.
2
The company has pawn stores across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
3
The Company operates 21 pawn stores in the Mexican state of Sinaloa under the brand name Bazareno.
4
It now plans to open 65 to 75 pawn stores in 2010, mainly in Mexico.
5
The company, which runs 517 pawn stores, will add 70 to 80 stores in 2011, of which a majority are projected to be in Mexico.
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The pawnbroker protested his innocence, and denied the taking in the shifts.
2
The pawnbroker offered him five-and-twenty pounds on the security of the opal.
3
The advantages to the pawnbroker of this secret arrangement would be many.
4
Not in Morebury, even supposing there was a pawnbroker's in the place.
5
It appears that he had discovered the identical suit at the pawnbroker's.
6
Edward bought the duplicate of her, and went downstairs to the pawnbroker's.
7
This is evidently the undertaker's, for we have just passed the pawnbroker's.
8
I daresay he was never really a pawnbroker and is quite respectable.
9
He went into a pawnbroker's shop at the corner of the street.
10
I expressed some surprize to the pawnbroker, and asked the lady's name.
11
He hastened to the pawnbroker's at which the robbery had been committed.
12
The pawnbroker reflected, could not understand this subtlety, went behind his counter.
13
Susan knew what a pawnbroker's ticket was, and read it with curiosity.
14
He bought a secondhand watch at a pawnbroker's, but disdained a chain.
15
This pawnbroker fellow shot into the street and dragged her back inside.
16
Andy pointed out the pawnbroker's shop from which he had just come.
