Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) to spit; also as n., a glob of phlegm.

1972		M. Cope ‘Morning with Bullet Hands’ in Spiral of Fire (1987) 41: There is a foamy sound of pissing and hoiking phlegm.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 56/2: hoick to spit, possibly from its sound.
1992		A. Duff One Night Out Stealing 87: Cricket sucks! Jube booming. Then he spat a big hoik on the floor.
1995		P. Vautin Turn It Up! 22: He was hoeing into his Big Charlie [...] giving it a good 25 crunches on either side of the mouth, blowing a bubble then hoicking.
2002		Macquarie Dict. Book of Sl. 🌐 hoick verb 1. to clear the throat and spit.
2018		G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] He hoiked a greenie and spat it through the railings.