Definitions
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- noun Same as
hiccup .
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- noun A
hiccup .
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- noun frontier marshal whose adventures have become legendary (1837-1876)
Etymologies
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From a reduplicated variant of hic, hick ("to hiccup"), formed as a quasi-diminutive as though equivalent to hick + -ock.
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