Meaning

2 senses
  1. To fish for pollock.

  2. To splatter, as with paint.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Pollock’s early works are similar to his teacher’s kind of painting.

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  2. Paul likes pollock.

  3. In nineteen forty-four, Pollock married Lee Krasner who was also a skilled Abstract Expressionist painter.

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Origin

From Middle English [Term?], perhaps from Scots podlok. From Jackson Pollock, an American

From Middle English [Term?], perhaps from Scots podlok.

From Jackson Pollock, an American artist who painted in splatters.

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Forms

pollocks, pollocking, pollocked, pollocked
Base formpollock · to pollock
3rd person singularpollocks
Present participlepollocking
Past simplepollocked
Past participlepollocked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypollock
he, she, itpollocks

Past simpleLesson

all personspollocked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pollocked
he, she, ithas pollocked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pollock

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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