Definitions for Hooker

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Hooker hook·er

Spelling: [hoo k-er]

IPA: /ˈhʊk ər/

Hooker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in Hooker (ehkoor).

Definitions for Hooker

noun

1. a person or thing that hooks.
2. Slang. prostitute.
3. Slang. a large drink of liquor.
4. Slang. a concealed problem, flaw, or drawback; a catch.
5. Rugby. a player who hooks the ball in the front line of scrummage.
6. (initial capital letter) Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an Amish Mennonite.
7. Slang. any old-fashioned or clumsy vessel.
8. any fishing vessel working with hooks and lines rather than nets.
9. Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
10. Richard, 1554?–1600, English author and clergyman.
11. Thomas, 1586?–1647, English Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of the colony of Connecticut.

Origin of Hooker

1560-70; 1835-45, Americanism for def 2; hook¹ + -er¹

Examples for Hooker

Tommy Defendi accepts his Hookie for Best Porn Star Escort, thanking his clients: “You made me the hooker I am today!”

hooker, because he alone is a captain, cannot be in command.

I do not need a bracer to get me going or a hooker to keep me under way.

Nor does anybody, save here and there an antiquarian, read Shepard and hooker and Mayhew.

The one in Atlantic City with the cop and the hooker and the crazy guy and so forth.

Surely some of it came from the anger a hooker might rightly feel toward a john.

Vincent teaches young Oliver how to fight bullies, how to gamble, what a hooker is––you know, the important things in life.

hooker may attack vigorously, stand as a rock, but cannot manœuvre.

He turned a young girl into a hooker—and then enlisted his mother to cover up the evidence.

Stanton said to me that he believes in hooker, (p. 218) even if hooker be unsuccessful.