Noun: Hawkins ho-kinz
- English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
- Hawkyns, Sir John Hawkins, Sir John Hawkyns
- United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969)
- Coleman Hawkins
Type of: privateer, privateersman [archaic], saxist [informal], saxophonist
Encyclopedia: Hawkins, Michael Daly