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Hooking   /hˈʊkɪŋ/   Listen
Hooking

noun
1.
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.  Synonyms: draw, hook.


Hook

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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"Hooking" Quotes from Famous Books



... the duty of governing, if they do but ride constantly a hunting, breed up good race-horses, sell places and offices to those of the courtiers that will give most for them, and find out new ways for invading of their people's property, and hooking in a larger revenue to their own exchequer; for the procurement whereof they will always have some pretended claim and title; that though it be manifest extortion, yet it may bear the show of law and justice: and then they daub over their oppression with a submissive, flattering carriage, ...
— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus
... stroking his big overcoat neatly down, and hooking up his jacket, with the agreement in his pocket, seated himself in his tightly covered ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... he had been peculiarly free from the desire to take what did not belong to him; and as he grew older, this had developed into a positive aversion to anything that savoured of stealing in the slightest degree. He never could see any fun in "hooking" another boy's lunch, as so many others did, and nothing could induce him to join in one of the numerous expeditions organised to raid sundry unguarded orchards in ...
— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley
... But Campana, hooking his little fat wife under his arm, while we did the agreeable to the nieces, now addressed himself to enter, with the constant preliminary ejaculation of all well—bred Spaniards in crossing a friend's ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... Fifth Form celebrity the Tadpole cringed and cowered, and tried to sneak out of the study unobserved. But Anthony was too quick for him. Gently hooking him by the coat-collar with the end of a crutch, ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed


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