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US
/ˈkɹʊk/
]
[ UK /kɹˈʊk/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈʊk/ ]
NOUN
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
-
a circular segment of a curve
a crook in the path
a bend in the road - a long staff with one end being hook shaped
VERB
-
bend or cause to bend
He crooked his index finger
the road curved sharply
How To Use crook In A Sentence
- A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
- He was a cheap crook and what used to be called a chiseler. Hard Road
- He has liver disease now; but his sickness is a judgment of God, and he will die crooked. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
- Suggest he is a liar and a crook. Times, Sunday Times
- MONTGOMERY: A group of crooks in Montgomery stole a forklift, used it to steal an ATM from a bank, and a surveillance camera caught the whole thing! News for NBC13.com
- Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
- If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
- Her green jacket was loosely draped in the crook of her elbow, and her jeans were clean, as if they had been purchased recently.
- We want our border patrol agents chasing crooks and thieves and terrorists not good-hearted people coming here to work.
- crooked malposed teeth