hoe

noun

1. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.

   “For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.”

   “It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.”

2. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.

   “The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]”

3. (alt-of, alternative, derogatory, slang)Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).

   “Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes”

   “Fuck all you hoes. Get a grip, motherfucker.”

   “[…] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (and hoe) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination”

   “At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm”

   “On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).”

4. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
5. (Orkney, Shetland)The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

   “to hoe the earth in a garden”

   “Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.”

   “I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.”

2. (transitive)To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

   “to hoe corn”

3. (US, alt-of, alternative, slang)Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).

   “Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.”

name

1. A village and civil parish in Breckland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF995211).
2. A surname.