Talk:hawk

Also a slang verb, "to steal"?

I just read this:

• 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

  It was as if he had read Brian's mind and had discovered how much Brian disliked having the owner of a store trailing around after him while he was looking at stuff. He supposed most storekeepers were afraid that you'd break something, or hawk something, or both.

Equinox ◑ 12:43, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

• We are indeed missing a sense meaning "steal". I'll leave this to someone else as our entry for hawker suggests the verb may have come from the noun (and therefore would require a new etymology section). — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 01:48, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

"From 1962"

Isn't this just a shortening of much older war hawk? –Jberkel 16:00, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Prisoner's dilemma

The English game theory sense says that the hawk-dove game is the prisoner's dilemma, but it's actually the game of chicken. — excarnateSojourner (ta·co) 01:48, 8 December 2024 (UTC)