Definition of "hoik"

hoik

/hɔɪk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural hoiks
1. (cricket, countable) A wild hook shot played without style.
2. (New Zealand) Sputum.
verb
third-person singular simple present hoiks, present participle hoiking, simple past and past participle hoiked
1. (cricket) To play such a shot.
2. (informal, transitive) To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist.
3. (informal, transitive) To throw something out.
  Quotations
  “What are your plans now?” “I propose to hoik you out of that chair and seat myself in it and take that book, the early chapters of which I found most gripping, and start catching up with my reading and try to forget.”
  1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII
4. (New Zealand) To spit.