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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. Antonym: unhook.

2.

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

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

... which must have surprised poor Bobov not a little.... I afterwards learned that he had come to me to borrow money (his landlord had threatened to turn him out of the house); he had no choice but to hook ...

— The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... existence of the whole universe—does it not? and my function is to paint—and as a painter I have a conception which is altogether genialisch, of your great-aunt or second grandmother as a subject for a picture; therefore, the universe is straining towards that picture through that particular hook or claw which it puts forth in the shape of ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... bounding, leaping run, breaking through the undergrowth as though it were reeds. One glance, as he flew by the watchers without seeing them, caused them to hold their sides and double up with laughter. The line was still fastened to Chris' leg, and drew after it the captive of his hook. One glance behind and Chris began to holler, "Help, help, Massa Walt, help, Massa Charley. De snake's goin' to get dis nigger. Oh ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... soap box, by tacking wire gauze over the open surface of the box, removing the nails from one of the boards of the bottom, and converting this board into a door by attaching it in its former position by light hinges and a hook and staple. The box, if now placed on end with two inches of loose soil in the bottom, will constitute a satisfactory insect cage, ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education

... unsuspected but potent earth-forces, primitive, savage and forever irreclaimable, his calm became strangely disturbed. Dimly he realized that should every desert on the globe finally be subdued by the plow, the irrigating ditches and the pruning hook, they would still remain as realities in the mind of man, forever clouding his aspirations toward the mountain peaks and the stars. For the desert must ever remain an unsolved enigma, never to be reduced to a formula, never to be explained by any human ...

— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

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