/hoohk/ , n. , pl. Huks .
1. a member of the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (People's Liberation Army) , a Communist agrarian revolutionary group in central Luzon in the Philippines.
2. a member of the Hukbalahap, an anti-Japanese resistance group in central Luzon during World War II.
[ shortening of Tagalog hukbo army ]