hic


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hic

(hɪk)
interj
a representation of the sound of a hiccup
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Translations

hic

[hɪk] EXCL¡hip!
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hic

interjhick
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References in classic literature ?
And yet while I did rest under your roof, thinking you were an honest man (hic!) and one loving of the King, my pouch has been opened and many matters of state taken from it."
I had with me, item, a warrant, granted under the hand of my lord High Sheriff of Nottingham, and sealed with the Kings's own seal, for the capture(hic!)--and arrest--and overcoming of a notorious rascal, one Robin Hood of Barnesdale.
"O eloquent, just and mighty death!" Raleigh says in the last lines of his book, "Whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded, what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the far stretching greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words Hic Jacet.
Impia tortorum longos hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit.
The Doctors Company has completed the purchase of Hospitals Insurance Company (HIC), a New York State admitted and licensed insurance company, and FOJP Service Corporation, a New York service organization that provides third-party comprehensive insurance and risk management advisory services to HIC-insured hospitals.
HIC provides insurance coverages and services to hospitals, physicians and other healthcare professionals, long-term care facilities, and social service agencies throughout New York State.
The fact that five out of the nine laboratories in the world approved to conduct HIC testing for Saudi Aramco are part of Element is very telling of our position as a leading provider of oil & gas testing services," he added.
The official said that HIC would be distributed among poor families across the former FATA without any political discrimination.
Dr Jianxin Gao, director of the HIC at Teesside University, says the world-leading research could revolutionise breast cancer scanning and analysis and have a significant impact on people's healthcare.