hoe
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- noun
- /hoʊ/
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- "Tamborel unslung his hoe and rake and waited by the step."
- hoe blade
- handle a hoe
Like you, you waving that hoe like it's a motherfucking flipper flopper.
- Like you, you waving that hoe like it's a motherfucking flipper flopper.
- Instead, he finds a garden hoe and he swings at the man's throat, taking thwack after thwack.
- A man, exhausted, hoeing barren ground, his lips split by the weather, facing the viewer, barren and exhausted and leaning on his hoe.
Examples
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When hands and hoes are all you have to coax food from the soil, you waste neither.
Academic text (2004) -
Now, the rice field is your paper, and the hoe is your pen.
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I dashed to the house and picked up a hoe lying against the steps.
Fiction book (1993) -
After dinner, when she watered, Ray leaned on a hoe and talked to her.
Fiction book (1994) -
Pa made his money with the old-fashioned plow and hoe.
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My grandfather raised his hoe and brought it down on the slug, slicing it in two.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Hwyllum straightened, and, leaning on his hoe, took out his kerchief and mopped his brow."
Fiction book (1993) -
She used the hoe to break up the tough soil in her garden.
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After a long day of work, he rested while leaning on his hoe in the vegetable patch.
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With a sturdy hoe, she easily removed the weeds from the flower bed.
Synonyms
A garden tool with a flat blade you push to cut weeds just below the soil
A garden tool with a flat blade you push to cut weeds and loosen soil
A hoe pushed to loosen weeds between rows
A small tool for pulling weeds from a garden or lawn
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
A man who keeps helping women in a way that is too much and makes him seem foolish and self-important
- Slang
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Etymology
Hoe for the gardening tool comes from a very old word for a simple digging implement, which makes sense because a hoe is used to break soil and pull up weeds.