Huk

People’s Liberation Army noun

1. See under Huk(def 1).
2. the name of the armed forces of the People’s Republic of China.
3. a rebel army or army of liberation in any of various other countries.

Huk [hook] noun, plural 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.

Origin of Huk shortening of Tagalog hukbo army