Hoard

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–noun 

1. a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of [silver]. 

–verb (used with object) 

2. to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place: to hoard [food] during a shortage.  



–verb (used without object) 

3. to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc. 





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hoard (n., v.), horde (n.) 

 

Of these homophones, the noun hoard refers to a hidden collection of treasure or supplies, and the verb hoard means "to collect and hide away such a reserve of money or things." 



The noun horde means "a wandering or nomadic tribe" and more generally now "any mob or large group of people, especially one in motion." 



The term is pejorative: a horde of this sort is probably [dangerous]. 





　

First of all, this is an adaptation of a popular Chuck Palahniuk novel. Palahniuk is the author behind 1999's Fight Club (a movie that sent hoards of hysterical critics into a spastic [fit], calling the film antisocial and nihilistic), and much more pertinently, he's one of his generation's best-selling and most prominent authors of transgressional fiction. 



In a very dirty nutshell: this stuff is supposed to be shocking, cynical, and raw. That seeming irreverence to basically everything is part of the fundamental mechanism through which this style of narrative imparts its meaning. 



Plenty of audience members are sure to shut down before they can imbibe a single footnote of the story's subtext, but it doesn't change the fact that the message of a movie isn't always determined by the actions of the main character. And in the case of Choke, the protagonist actually does spell out the film's thesis for you -- eventually.



imbibe

–verb (used with object)

1. to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink: He imbibed great quantities of iced [tea]. 

3. to take or receive into the mind, as knowledge, ideas, or the like: to imbibe a [sermon]; to imbibe beautiful [scenery]. 





clog

I unclogged your drain. The water's drain is good now.

hence the need to get their lenses dirty on its [clogged] streets.

cask

spigot

The latter part of "From Dusk Till Dawn" is so relentless that it's as if a spigot has been [turned] on and then broken.

Stagnation