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Hook

noun

1.

A catch for locking a door.

2.

A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook. Synonym: crotchet.

3.

Anything that serves as an enticement. Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener.

4.

A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something. Synonym: claw.

5.

A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something.

6.

A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer. Synonyms: draw, hooking.

7.

A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.

8.

A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket. Synonym: hook shot.

verb

(past & past part. hooked; pres. part. hooking)

1.

Fasten with a hook.

2.

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price. Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.

3.

Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle. Synonym: crochet.

4.

Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.

5.

Take by theft. Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve.

6.

Make off with belongings of others. Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe.

7.

Hit with a hook.

8.

Catch with a hook.

9.

To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug). Synonym: addict.

10.

Secure with the foot.

11.

Entice and trap. Synonym: snare.

12.

Approach with an offer of sexual favors. Synonyms: accost, solicit. "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

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"Hook" Quotes from Famous Books

... General was aware that in consulting Simon he might be entering on dark ways where no gentleman would follow him. Simon's help might mean a good deal. It might mean arrests rather too near Monsieur Urbain to be pleasant. On one thing the General was resolved; by hook or by crook, by fair means or foul, Helene de Sainfoy should become his wife. With her mother on his side, he suspected that any means would in the end be forgiven. He was never likely again to have ...

— Angelot - A Story of the First Empire • Eleanor Price

... run down to the bridge when they saw that the skiff was not going to be of any use, and one of them had got out of the window of the bridge onto the middle pier, with a long pole in his hand. It had an iron hook at the end, and it was the kind of pole that the men used to catch drift-wood with and drag it ashore. When the people saw Blue Bob with that pole in his hand, they understood what he was up to. He was going to wait till the water brought ...

— The Flight of Pony Baker - A Boy's Town Story • W. D. Howells

... there, dimly made out that a sword was thrust through, an arm followed, and she could hear the blade ring and scrape as it was used to feel for the fastenings, clicking loudly against the ironwork and the chain which hung at the side ready for hanging across the door, to pass over a spiral hook on ...

— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn

... (Coregonus Albus,) which is the most valuable of all, somewhat resembles the shad in appearance and taste. It is taken in seines and other nets,—never with the hook. The white-fish of Lake Superior are larger, fatter, and of finer flavor than any others. In this lake they have sometimes been taken weighing fifteen pounds. At the Sault they are taken in the rapids with dip-nets, by the Chippewas who live in that ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various

... merciless fate Is to take the next hook with the president's bait, You are lost while you snatch from the end of his line The morsel he rent from ...

— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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