shake one's hocks

English

Verb

shake one's hocks (third-person singular simple present shakes one's hocks, present participle shaking one's hocks, simple past shook one's hocks, past participle shaken one's hocks)

  1. (US, slang, dated) To get moving; to depart in a hurry.
    • 2008, Jake Logan, Slocum 356: Slocum and Pearl of the Rio Grande (page 52)
      Well, we's got work to do. Finish up here, boys, we got's some miles to make. Better shake our hocks.
    • 2014, Eugenia Riley, Wanted Across Time
      Shake your hocks, sugar, before those bastards blow several holes in you.
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