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Hooks

noun
1.
Large strong hand (as of a fighter).  Synonyms: maulers, meat hooks.


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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"Hooks" Quotes from Famous Books



... persons), and improved points, temper, and finish. Each paper is labelled with a likeness of her Majesty or his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in relief on coloured grounds. Every quality of needles, fish hooks, hooks and eyes, steel pens, &c. for shipping. These needles or pens for the home trade are sent, free by post, by any respectable dealer, on receipt of 13 penny stamps for every shilling value.—H. Walker, manufacturer to the Queen, 20 ...
— The Economist - Volume 1, No. 3 • Various
... said he "you were born in one of our settlements abroad." I still answered No. He seemed very much surprised, and said, he was sure I was not a foreigner. I made no reply, but left him upon the tenter-hooks of impatient uncertainty. He could not contain his anxiety, but asked pardon for the liberties he had taken and, to encourage me the more to disclose my situation, displayed his own without reserve. ...
— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett
... and 28th verses of our text the same expression very significantly and emphatically. 'The lord of that servant was moved with compassion.' And then again, in the 28th verse, 'But that servant went out and found one of his fellow-servants.' The repetition of the same phrase hooks the two halves together, emphasises the identity of the man, and the difference of his demeanour, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren
... seems no difference between hatred and envy, but they seem identical. For generally speaking, as vice has many hooks, and is swayed hither and thither by the passions that hang on it, there are many points of contact and entanglement between them, for as in the case of illnesses there is a sympathy between the various passions. Thus the prosperous man ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch
... fond woman? Justum, si fractus illabatur orbis, inpavidum ferient ruinae. Here let me live estranged from great men's looks; They are like golden flies on leaden hooks. ...
— Sir Thomas More • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]


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