Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to lift or hoist, with a jerk or snatch.

1855		Bell’s Life in Sydney 10 Mar. 2/5: O’Callaghan, 11 A, who hoicked the disorderly customer off to the nearest conciergerie.
1898		G. Nickalls in Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 346: Until the finish, which, to be made really effective, must be honestly hoicked out.
1902		W.J. Locke Usurper 311: He had been hoicked out of the Tyrol by a telegram from Headquarters.
1913		W.B. Maxwell Devil’s Garden 420: [...] and they do it at the double quick—hoicked out of your cell and pinioned in one move.
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 120: Hoick, To: An Air Force term for the action of jerking up an aeroplane rapidly, and making it suddenly climb steeply.
1954		Wodehouse Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 201: ‘Come, Moth-aw,’ said Percy, hoicking her up from where she roosted.
1978		P. Theroux Picture Palace 221: He went snark and hoicked up the glue in his nose and gulped it down.
1983		A. Payne ‘Get Daley!’ Minder [TV script] 21: Terry hoicks two big suitcases out of the boot of the car.
1998		Indep. Mag. 25 July 7: A well-fed matron hoiked up her tights.
2000		Indep. Rev. 14 Mar. 7: Another responded to being arrested by hoiking up her skirt [...] and trying to rip her clothes off.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 158: He has to hoick up his dress.

2. to drag (out of).

1911		H. Belloc Girondin 178: He hoicked out from his bosom the end of the chain, as though he would fasten the charm on again.
1916		J. Buchan Greenmantle (1930) 157: I had got myself adjusted to this trench business and was quite happy. And now you have hoicked me out, and my feet are cold.
1934		Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves 234: It had hoicked me out of bed as if something had exploded under me.
1943		‘Henry Green’ Caught (2001) 98: We hoicked the old chap down to the country.
2006		B. Reed ‘Blind Freddie at the end of the cord’ in Passing Strange (2015) 35: ‘Blind Man’s Bluff our thing? Spin me around and hoick me, is it?’.

3. to spit out.

1972		M. Cope ‘Morning with Bullet Hands’ in Spiral of Fire (1987) 41: There is a foamy sound of pissing and hoiking phlegm.
2018		G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] He hoiked a greenie and spat it through the railings.