Definitions for Hooks

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Spelling: [hoo ks]

IPA: /hʊks/

Hooks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in Hooks (hkoos).

Definitions for Hooks

noun

1. Benjamin Lawson, 1925–2010, U.S. lawyer, clergyman, and civil-rights advocate: executive director of the NAACP 1977–93.
2. a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
3. a fishhook.
4. anything that catches; snare; trap.
5. something that attracts attention or serves as an enticement:
6. something having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end, as a mark or symbol.
7. a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything.
8. a curved arm of land jutting into the water; a curved peninsula:
9. a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant.
10. a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener.
11. 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.
12. Boxing. a short, circular punch delivered with the elbow bent.
13. 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.
14. Metalworking. an accidental short bend formed in a piece of bar stock during rolling.
15. hooks, Slang. hands or fingers:
16. Underworld Slang. a pickpocket.
17. 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 Hooks

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 Hooks

Wasn't that cad of a Bordenave going to go off the Hooks after all?

By means of these Hooks the balls were fastened to the jackets of the adventurers.

Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and Hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.

He's thought about it; he's waiting for his wife to go off the Hooks!

But I did a lot of stuff before “Gentleman,” so this song is sort of a mash-up of my previous 10 tracks and 10 Hooks.

Then, with wind blowing him out horizontal under the wing, he Hooks a boot on that balky wheel, kicks the mother home.

We kept going up until we found ourselves in a vast Sharkarama, a huge loft with fake sharks hung from Hooks everywhere.

Let us fasten ourselves to the throne of God as with Hooks of steel.

Then we baited some of the professor's Hooks with the fresh meat and went a-fishing.

As a whole, Paula is neither catchy enough for the charts nor inventive enough to justify its shortage of Hooks.