Hokku

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A haiku.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of Japanese poem.
  • Word Usage
    "In it, the concluding hemistich of the tanka is left off, and it is just in his hemistich that the meaning of the poem is brought out, so that the hokku is a mere essence, a whiff of an idea to be created in full by the hearer."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    haiku