Definitions for crook

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Spelling: [kroo k]

IPA: /krʊk/

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

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in crook (ckoor).

Definitions for crook

noun

1. a bent or curved implement, piece, appendage, etc.; hook.
2. the hooked part of anything.
3. an instrument or implement having a bent or curved part, as a shepherd's staff hooked at one end or the crosier of a bishop or abbot.
4. a dishonest person, especially a sharper, swindler, or thief.
5. a bend, turn, or curve:
6. the act of crooking or bending.
7. a pothook.
8. Also called shank. a device on some musical wind instruments for changing the pitch, consisting of a piece of tubing inserted into the main tube.
9. George, 1829–90, U.S. general in Indian wars.

adjective

1. sick or feeble.
2. ill-humored; angry.
3. out of order; functioning improperly.
4. unsatisfactory; disappointing.

verb (used with object)

1. to bend; curve; make a crook in.
2. Slang. to steal, cheat, or swindle:

verb (used without object)

1. to bend; curve.

Origin of crook

1125-75; Middle English crok(e) Old Norse krāka hook

Examples for crook

The crook then produces a MetroCard of his own and offers to swipe the would-be traveler through—for a premium price.

Errichetti was a foul-mouthed megalomaniac and “a crook at heart,” Greene wrote.

And he's promised to pay for the pinto, so that don't make him a crook.

Now, the stool-pigeon in this trick is a swell English crook.

With them, the crook is presumed guilty at the outset of whatever may be charged against him.

Once I exposed the leading citizen of Dallas, the very top guy, as a crook who had stolen money.

Iranians preferred the populist they did not know to the crook they did.

Kevin Kline won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his hilarious turn as Otto, an Anglophobe crook, in this 1988 comedy.

If you'd been a crook, well, God knows how we'd a-panned out.

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