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A hook is a curved piece of metal or other hard material that's used or pulling or holding something. A tow truck is equipped with a large hook to pull cars, and the fictional Captain Hook came equipped with an iron hook to pull off dastardly deeds.

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A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

Noun
a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

Noun
a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

Noun
a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking"

Noun
a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

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a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

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Noun
a catch for locking a door

Noun
anything that serves as an enticement

Noun
a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

Verb
approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

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entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"

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secure with the foot; "hook the ball"

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to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

Verb
fasten with a hook

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catch with a hook; "hook a fish"

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hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly"

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

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make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day"

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make off with belongings of others

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rip off; ask an unreasonable price

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take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!"

n.
A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

n.
That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

n.
An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

n.
See Eccentric, and V-hook.

n.
A snare; a trap.

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A field sown two years in succession.

n.
The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.

v. t.
To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.

v. t.
To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

v. t.
To steal.

v. i.
To bend; to curve as a hook.

Hook

Hook , n. [OE. hok, AS. h'd3c; cf. D. haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. h'beko, h'bego, h'beggo, Icel. haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatch a half door, Heckle.] 1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc. 2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns. 3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.

Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook.

4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook. 5. A snare; a trap. [R.] Shak. 6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.] 7. pl. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones. By hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect. Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or crook." Spenser. -- Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river." Pepys. -- On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett. -- To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] Thackeray. -- Bid hook, a small boat hook. -- Chain hook. See under Chain. -- Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests. -- Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. -- Hook bill (Zo'94l.), the strongly curved beak of a bird. -- Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks. -- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.

Hook

Hook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooking.] 1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.

Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice.

2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore. 3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.] To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.

Hook

Hook , v. i. To bend; to curve as a hook.

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.

To bend; to curve as a hook.

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Usage Examples

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.