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bock

(bok; bəʊk)

vb, n

(Pathology) a variant spelling of boke

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bock

Past participle: bocked
Gerund: bocking

Imperative
bock
bock

Present
I bock
you bock
he/she/it bocks
we bock
you bock
they bock

Preterite
I bocked
you bocked
he/she/it bocked
we bocked
you bocked
they bocked

Present Continuous
I am bocking
you are bocking
he/she/it is bocking
we are bocking
you are bocking
they are bocking

Present Perfect
I have bocked
you have bocked
he/she/it has bocked
we have bocked
you have bocked
they have bocked

Past Continuous
I was bocking
you were bocking
he/she/it was bocking
we were bocking
you were bocking
they were bocking

Past Perfect
I had bocked
you had bocked
he/she/it had bocked
we had bocked
you had bocked
they had bocked

Future
I will bock
you will bock
he/she/it will bock
we will bock
you will bock
they will bock

Future Perfect
I will have bocked
you will have bocked
he/she/it will have bocked
we will have bocked
you will have bocked
they will have bocked

Future Continuous
I will be bocking
you will be bocking
he/she/it will be bocking
we will be bocking
you will be bocking
they will be bocking

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been bocking
you have been bocking
he/she/it has been bocking
we have been bocking
you have been bocking
they have been bocking

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been bocking
you will have been bocking
he/she/it will have been bocking
we will have been bocking
you will have been bocking
they will have been bocking

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been bocking
you had been bocking
he/she/it had been bocking
we had been bocking
you had been bocking
they had been bocking

Conditional
I would bock
you would bock
he/she/it would bock
we would bock
you would bock
they would bock

Past Conditional
I would have bocked
you would have bocked
he/she/it would have bocked
we would have bocked
you would have bocked
they would have bocked

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Noun

bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring

bock beer

lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September

Translations

Bockbier

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Simply pairs and groups of young men and women chattering amiably in front of their "bocks" or their "Americains." Here and there a student would have his arm round a waist every one else envied him.

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The two men shook hands, and Winsett proposed a bock at a little German restaurant around the corner.

The two men always met at the Century, or at some haunt of journalists and theatrical people, such as the restaurant where Winsett had proposed to go for a bock. He had given Archer to understand that his wife was an invalid; which might be true of the poor lady, or might merely mean that she was lacking in social gifts or in evening clothes, or in both.

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I, the artist, have my bock, and my coat is not good.

I go to a cafe and order a bock. I smoke a cigarette.

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"That's the only thing I miss in Paris," he said, as he finished the bock which the waiter had brought.

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Bocks have traditionally been the province of spring, but these malty robust beers are plenty fortifying in the cold weather at hand.

Brew notes: winter bocks

The Bocks returned from a weekend away to a blinking light on their phone answering machine.

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"Doesn't have that grainy, biscuity characteristic that a lot of American bocks have," said Phil Simpson.

Maibock Gordon Biersch Brewing Co

"Yeah, a lot of bocks are too sweet, this one isn't," seconded guest taster Kirby Shyer of Manhattan Beer.

Narragansett Bock

Another in a line of impressive beers from Breckenridge, Pandora's was our favorite in a recent flight of bocks. This 7.5% beer is made with Two-Row Pale, Munich, Bonlander, Caramel malts, and hopped with Strisselspalt and either Columbus or Chinook (our sources don't seem to agree).