Definitions for Hook

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Hook hook

Spelling: [hoo k]

IPA: /hʊk/

Hook is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in Hook (hkoo).

Definitions for Hook

noun

1. a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
2. a fishhook.
3. anything that catches; snare; trap.
4. something that attracts attention or serves as an enticement:
5. something having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end, as a mark or symbol.
6. a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything.
7. a curved arm of land jutting into the water; a curved peninsula:
8. a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant.
9. a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener.
10. Sports. the path described by a ball, as in baseball, bowling, or golf, that curves in a direction opposite to the throwing hand or to the side of the ball from which it was struck. a ball describing such a path.
11. Boxing. a short, circular punch delivered with the elbow bent.
12. Music. Also called flag, pennant. a stroke or line attached to the stem of eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc. an appealing melodic phrase, orchestral ornament, refrain, etc., often important to a popular song's commercial success.
13. Metalworking. an accidental short bend formed in a piece of bar stock during rolling.
14. hooks, Slang. hands or fingers:
15. Underworld Slang. a pickpocket.
16. Also called deck hook. Nautical. a triangular plate or knee that binds together the stringers and plating at each end of a vessel.

Idioms

1. by hook or by crook, by any means, whether just or unjust, legal or illegal. Also, by hook or crook.
2. get / give the hook, Informal. to receive or subject to a dismissal:
3. hook it, Slang. to run away; depart; flee:
4. hook, line, and sinker, Informal. entirely; completely:
5. off the hook, out of trouble; released from some difficulty: free of obligation: Slang. extremely or shockingly excellent:
6. on one's own hook, Informal. on one's own initiative or responsibility; independently.
7. on the hook, Slang. obliged; committed; involved: subjected to a delaying tactic; waiting:

Verb phrases

1. hook up, to fasten with a hook or hooks. to assemble or connect, as the components of a machine: to connect to a central source, as of power or water: Informal. to join, meet, or become associated with: Informal. to have casual sex or a romantic date without a long-term commitment:

verb (used with object)

1. to seize, fasten, suspend from, pierce, or catch hold of and draw with or as if with a hook.
2. to catch (fish) with a fishhook.
3. Slang. to steal or seize by stealth.
4. Informal. to catch or trick by artifice; snare.
5. (of a bull or other horned animal) to catch on the horns or attack with the horns.
6. to catch hold of and draw (loops of yarn) through cloth with or as if with a hook.
7. to make (a rug, garment, etc.) in this fashion.
8. Sports. to hit or throw (a ball) so that a hook results.
9. Boxing. to deliver a hook with:
10. Rugby. to push (a ball) backward with the foot in scrummage from the front line.
11. to make hook-shaped; crook.

verb (used without object)

1. to become attached or fastened by or as if by a hook.
2. to curve or bend like a hook.
3. Sports. (of a player) to hook the ball. (of a ball) to describe a hook in course.
4. Slang. to depart hastily:
5. Slang. to work as a prostitute.

Origin of Hook

before 900; 1830-40, Americanism for def 36; Middle English hoke (noun and v.), Old English hōc (noun); cognate with Dutch hoek hook, angle, corner; akin to German Haken, Old Norse haki

Examples for Hook

I am an outlaw, and get my living by hook and by crook in a manner it boots not now to tell of.

Seizing a match-box, he struck a light and held it to the hook.

Mrs. Wilson put down her hook again, and leaned back in her chair.

After six months of intermittent interrogations and several lie detector tests, Elahi got off the hook.

In the near term, the state will only be on the hook for 10 percent of its costs by 2020.

He had been lightly hooked on the angle of the right jaw, and the hook had not wearied him.

“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

They “hook up” in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.

Zuckerberg himself has bragged that he is able to predict which site members will hook up with whom based on their site activity.

As we came into the hook, we were hailed by a gun-boat, and heard of the "Little Embargo."