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▪ I. bock|bɒk| [Fr., a. G. bock, in full bockbier, shortened f. Eimbockbier, now Einbecker bier, f. Einbeck, Eimbeck, a town in Hanover.] In full bock beer. A strong dark-coloured variety of German beer. Also, a glass of this or any other beer.
1856Ill. State Reg. 26 June 4/3 There is a Bavarian lager beer which is called ‘bock’. 1867Simmonds Dict. Trade Suppl., Bock-beer, a favourite Bavarian double strong malt beverage, of the best lager description. 1879Sala Paris Herself Again I. 183 A ‘bock’, or glass of light and frothy beer. Ibid. 186 Allsopp at fifty centimes the ‘bock’. 1899Wilde Lett. (1962) 784, I go there on foot daily and have a bock. 1917T. S. Eliot Prufrock 19 Let us..sit for half an hour and drink our bocks. ▪ II. bock, bock-land etc.: see book n. ▪ III. bock var. of buck and bolk v. to belch. |