I just recently ran into an old Weinmann ad that called brake lever hoods
honking rubbers. I thought that was pretty hilarious. Climbing out of the saddle was still sometimes called honking when I got into cycling, and yeah, you often held onto the brake hoods to do it. This was well before
honking rubbers ( 
) were the default hand position. Another archaic term for out of the saddle climbing was
hot dogging.
Hadn't hear of "horking" till just now. Now i know...