hawk

[[t]hɔ͟ːk[/t]]

hawks, hawking, hawked

1) N-COUNT A hawk is a large bird with a short, hooked beak, sharp claws, and very good eyesight. Hawks catch and eat small birds and animals.

2) N-COUNT If you refer to someone as a hawk, you mean that they believe in using force and violence to achieve something, rather than using more peaceful or diplomatic methods. Compare dove.

Both hawks and doves have expanded their conditions for ending the war.

Ant:

dove

3) VERB If someone hawks goods, they sell them by walking through the streets or knocking at people's houses, and asking people to buy them. [OLD-FASHIONED]

[V n] ...vendors hawking trinkets.

Syn:

peddle

4) VERB (disapproval) You can say that someone is hawking something if you do not like the forceful way in which they are asking people to buy it.

[V n] Developers will be hawking cut-price flats and houses.

PHRASAL VERB

Hawk around means the same as hawk. [BRIT]

V P n (not pron) He is hawking around a 15-minute, ₤5,000 promotional video... V n P Most of the women were hawking food around the various prisons.

5) VERB If someone hawks, they noisily clear mucus from their throat and spit it out. [OLD-FASHIONED]

He hawked and spat.

6) PHRASE: V inflects If you watch someone like a hawk, you observe them very carefully, usually to make sure that they do not make a mistake or do something you do not want them to do.

Phrasal Verbs:

- hawk around