Definitions for hooked

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hooked hooked

Spelling: [hoo kt]

IPA: /hʊkt/

Hooked is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in hooked (dehkoo).

Definitions for hooked

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:

adjective

1. bent like a hook; hook-shaped.
2. having a hook or hooks.
3. made with a hook or by hooking.
4. Informal. addicted to narcotic drugs. slavishly interested in, devoted to, or obsessed with:
5. Slang. married.

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 hooked

before 1000; Middle English hoked, Old English hōkede. See hook¹, -ed², -ed³

Examples for hooked

“So I got hooked on finding the real stories of these people and these movies and these cultural influences,” he said.

Meanwhile, Beth is working from inside the hospital to secure the drugs Carol needs and to keep her hooked up to an IV drip.

When I asked why he stayed as long as he did, James said hopelessness kept him hooked.

Ignoring people you hooked up with at Shooters when encountering them on campus is a quintessential Duke experience.

At his trial, he also said he was hooked on coke from the age of 8.

I said I didn't know; but when he wasn't looking I hooked it.

Then I found it had an iron hook and was hooked down tight to the garden.

Peters clubbed Tremont's foot from the tank rack he had hooked with the toe.

For a moment Thad could see great, hooked fangs in that jaw.

The window was wide open, and the wooden shutters were hooked back.