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US
/ˈhʊk/
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[ UK /hˈʊk/ ]
[ UK /hˈʊk/ ]
VERB
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hit with a hook
His opponent hooked him badly -
secure with the foot
hook the ball -
entice and trap
The car salesman had snared three potential customers - to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- fasten with a hook
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catch with a hook
hook a fish -
make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
She sat there crocheting all day -
take by theft
Someone snitched my wallet! -
approach with an offer of sexual favors
he was solicited by a prostitute
The young man was caught soliciting in the park - make off with belongings of others
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
NOUN
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- anything that serves as an enticement
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a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
he took lessons to cure his hooking - a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a catch for locking a door
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
How To Use hook In A Sentence
- However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
- A letter to his wife in 1847 tells of a visit to the Brights at Rochdale; how 'John and I discorded in our views not a little', and how 'I shook peaceable Brightdom as with Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
- When fishing the ocean you need a good quality reel that is corrosion proof and fitted with a good quality and workable drag system that won't seize up when you hook that big one.
- The picture above demonstrates the details of a table cloth weaved with crochet hooks.
- They searched for his body, handlining with grappling hooks, setting gill nets straight offshore and hauling seine. AMAGANSETT
- He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
- The easiest way to support vine crops like cucumbers and tomatoes is to tie their stems to polyethylene string running from a support bar attached to ceiling hooks or from a support frame.
- We were kept on tenterhooks for hours while the judges chose the winner.
- The lower mandible, which is powerful, and is indented at its point to receive the hook, has a very sharp edge, which, with that of the upper mandible, constitutes a pair of formidable shears. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- It simply consists of a steel hook and a piece of rope with a loop on the end.