hoke /hoʊk/noun 1verb 2forms 3phrases 1 noun1 •Something contrived or artificial. verb2 •(slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.Sewell an anti-Semite? Nonsense. It suited Humboldt to hoke that up. — 1976 •(Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt — 1987 formshoked · hoking · hokes Phrases with hoke hoke upTo elaborate; to give a better, false impression of something
