Hoyle is a noun that refers to the rules.

Our word of the day is an eponym, which means it’s a word named after a person. The person who inspired Hoyle was an 20th century English astrophysicist named Fred Hoyle noted for establishing a theory of cosmology. When something is done according to Hoyle, it is done according to the rules.

Hank didn’t care for the way we carelessly handed out checks on Friday. He preferred we do things according to Hoyle, which meant handing out the checks in alphabetical order. I suppose it’s just a coincidence that his last name was Anderson.