The state or condition of being given or held as a pledge, or as security for the repayment of a loan; chiefly in at pawn, in pawn, †to pawn, etc…

British slang. The action of pawning something. Chiefly in in pop: in pawn, pawned. Cf. pop, v.1 9, pop-shop, n.

in (occasionally the) hock: (a) in the act (of gambling); (b) in prison; (c) in pawn; (d) in debt. So occasionally out of hock.

fig. phrases. on the shelf. slang. In pawn.