'Hook' definitions:
Definition of 'hook'
From: WordNet
noun
A catch for locking a door
noun
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: hook, crotchet]
noun
noun
A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something [syn: hook, claw]
noun
A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
noun
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his hooking" [syn: hook, draw, hooking]
noun
A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
noun
A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket [syn: hook shot, hook]
verb
Fasten with a hook [ant: unhook]
verb
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge]
verb
Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day" [syn: crochet, hook]
verb
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
verb
verb
Make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
verb
Hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly"
verb
Catch with a hook; "hook a fish"
verb
To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: addict, hook]
verb
Secure with the foot; "hook the ball"
verb
Entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers" [syn: hook, snare]
verb
Definition of 'Hook'
From: GCIDE
- Hook \Hook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooking.]
- 1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. [1913 Webster]
- Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --W. Collins. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hook'
From: GCIDE
- Hook \Hook\ (h[oo^]k; 277), n. [OE. hok, AS. h[=o]c; cf. D. haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. h[=a]ko, h[=a]go, h[=a]ggo, Icel. haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatch a half door, Heckle.]
- 1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook. [1913 Webster]
- Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A snare; a trap. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 7. pl. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Geog.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook in New Jersey. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 9. (Sports) The curving motion of a ball, as in bowling or baseball, curving away from the hand which threw the ball; in golf, a curving motion in the direction of the golfer who struck the ball. [PJC]
- 10. (Computers) A procedure within the encoding of a computer program which allows the user to modify the program so as to import data from or export data to other programs. [PJC]
- By hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect. --Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or crook." --Spenser.
- Off the hook, freed from some obligation or difficulty; as, to get off the hook by getting someone else to do the job. [Colloq.]
- Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river." --Pepys.
- On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
- To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
- Bid hook, a small boat hook.
- Chain hook. See under Chain.
- Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests.
- Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc.
- Hook bill (Zool.), the strongly curved beak of a bird.
- Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall.
- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks.
- Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis.
- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hook'
From: GCIDE
- Hook \Hook\, v. i.
- 1. To bend; to curve as a hook. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To move or go with a sudden turn; hence [Slang or Prov. Eng.], to make off; to clear out; -- often with it. "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it." --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Hook'
From: Easton
- Hook
- Heb. hah, a "ring" inserted in the nostrils of animals to which a cord was fastened for the purpose of restraining them (2 Kings 19:28; Isa. 37:28, 29; Ezek. 29:4; 38:4). "The Orientals make use of this contrivance for curbing their work-beasts...When a beast becomes unruly they have only to draw the cord on one side, which, by stopping his breath, punishes him so effectually that after a few repetitions he fails not to become quite tractable whenever he begins to feel it" (Michaelis). So God's agents are never beyond his control.
- Hakkah, a fish "hook" (Job 41:2, Heb. Text, 40:25; Isa. 19:8; Hab. 1:15).
- Vav, a "peg" on which the curtains of the tabernacle were hung (Ex. 26:32).
- Tsinnah, a fish-hooks (Amos 4:2).
- Mazleg, flesh-hooks (1 Sam. 2:13, 14), a kind of fork with three teeth for turning the sacrifices on the fire, etc.
- Mazmeroth, pruning-hooks (Isa. 2:4; Joel 3:10).
- 'Agmon (Job 41:2, Heb. Text 40:26), incorrectly rendered in the Authorized Version. Properly a rush-rope for binding animals, as in Revised Version margin.
Synonyms of 'hook'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- acquitted,
- all the way,
- allure,
- anchor,
- anchorage,
- and,
- and sinker,
- angle,
- angle off,
- annex,
- apex,
- appropriate,
- arc,
- arch,
- argue into,
- articulate,
- backhand,
- backhander,
- backstroke,
- bag,
- bait,
- bait the hook,
- baited trap,
- bar,
- batten,
- batten down,
- belt,
- bend,
- bend back,
- berth,
- bifurcate,
- bifurcation,
- bight,
- bill,
- birdlime,
- bola,
- bolo punch,
- bolt,
- boom,
- boost,
- borrow,
- bow,
- branch,
- breakwater,
- bring over,
- bring round,
- bring to reason,
- buckle,
- butt,
- button,
- cabbage,
- cant,
- cape,
- captivate,
- capture,
- catacaustic,
- catch,
- catch out,
- catenary,
- caustic,
- charm,
- chersonese,
- chevron,
- circle,
- clasp,
- claws,
- cleared,
- cleat,
- clip,
- clotheshorse,
- clothespin,
- clutches,
- cobweb,
- coin,
- collar,
- come what may,
- come-on,
- completely,
- con,
- conchoid,
- convince,
- cop,
- coral reef,
- corner,
- crane,
- crank,
- crib,
- crook,
- crotchet,
- curl,
- curve,
- decoy,
- decoy duck,
- decurve,
- deflect,
- deflection,
- defraud,
- delta,
- diacaustic,
- digits,
- dogleg,
- dome,
- dovetail,
- dragnet,
- draw over,
- drawcard,
- drawing card,
- elbow,
- ell,
- ellipse,
- embezzle,
- embow,
- endearment,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entirely,
- entoil,
- entrap,
- enweb,
- exonerated,
- extort,
- fangs,
- fastener,
- festoon,
- filch,
- fingernails,
- fingers,
- fishhook,
- flex,
- fly,
- foreland,
- fork,
- foul,
- furcate,
- furcation,
- gain,
- gain over,
- gallows,
- garter,
- gibbet,
- gill net,
- gin,
- grab,
- ground bait,
- hake,
- hands,
- hanger,
- harpoon,
- hasp,
- haymaker,
- head,
- headland,
- hinge,
- hitch,
- holder,
- hook,
- hook in,
- hooks,
- horse,
- hump,
- hunch,
- hyperbola,
- in the clear,
- incurvate,
- incurve,
- inflect,
- inflection,
- inveigle,
- jam,
- jaws,
- jig,
- joint,
- knee,
- knob,
- L,
- land,
- lariat,
- lasso,
- latch,
- let off,
- liberate,
- lift,
- lime,
- line,
- lituus,
- lock,
- Long Melford,
- loop,
- lure,
- make off with,
- mandibles,
- maxillae,
- meathooks,
- mesh,
- meshes,
- miter,
- mitts,
- mooring,
- mooring buoy,
- moorings,
- mortise,
- mudhook,
- mull,
- nab,
- nail,
- nails,
- naze,
- ness,
- net,
- nick,
- nip,
- nippers,
- nook,
- noose,
- off,
- one-two,
- out of it,
- outtalk,
- palm,
- parabola,
- peg,
- peninsula,
- persuade,
- pilfer,
- pin,
- pincers,
- pinch,
- plug,
- poach,
- point,
- pothook,
- pounces,
- pound net,
- prevail on,
- prevail upon,
- prevail with,
- promontory,
- purloin,
- purse seine,
- quoin,
- rabbet,
- recurve,
- reef,
- reflect,
- reflex,
- remove,
- retroflex,
- ring,
- rip off,
- rivet,
- rob,
- rope,
- round,
- round-arm blow,
- roundhouse,
- run away with,
- rustle,
- sack,
- sag,
- sandspit,
- scarf,
- screw,
- scrounge,
- seine,
- seize,
- sell,
- sell one on,
- set free,
- sew,
- shoplift,
- short-arm blow,
- sidewinder,
- sinus,
- skewer,
- slip,
- snag,
- snap,
- snare,
- snarl,
- snatch,
- sniggle,
- snitch,
- somehow or other,
- someway,
- spar,
- spear,
- spinner,
- spit,
- spread the toils,
- springe,
- spur,
- squid,
- staple,
- steal,
- stick,
- stitch,
- stud,
- suspenders,
- suspensory,
- swag,
- sway,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swindle,
- swing,
- swipe,
- tack,
- take,
- talk into,
- talk over,
- talons,
- tangle,
- tangle up with,
- teeth,
- thieve,
- thoroughly,
- through and through,
- toggle,
- toils,
- tongue,
- totally,
- tracery,
- trap,
- trawl,
- trip,
- turn,
- unguals,
- ungulae,
- uppercut,
- utterly,
- vault,
- veer,
- vertex,
- vindicated,
- walk off with,
- wangle,
- wangle into,
- wear down,
- wedge,
- wholly,
- win,
- win over,
- wind,
- wobbler,
- yard,
- yardarm,
- zag,
- zig,
- zigzag,
- zipper
Words containing 'Hook'
- Can hook,
- Hooked,
- Hooking,
- Hooks,
- Off the hook,
- Off the hooks,
- To hook on,
- hook on,
- hook up,
- hook up with,
- hooke,
- on the hook,
- Bid hook,
- Boat hook,
- Boot hook,
- Button hook,
- By hook or by crook,
- Cant hook,
- Cat hook,
- Chain hook,
- Check hook,
- Chimney hook,
- Clove hook,
- Crochet hook,
- Deck hook,
- Draught hook,
- Eccentric hook,
- Fly hook,
- Forelock hook,
- Gate hook,
- Gorge hook,
- Grub hook,
- Hook and eye,
- Hook bill,
- Hook ladder,
- Hook motion,
- Hook squid,
- Hook wrench,
- Hooke's gearing,
- Hooke's joint,
- Hooks, TX,
- India Hook,
- Junk hook,
- Kranging hook,
- Marcus Hook,
- Mousing hook,
- On one's own hook,
- Pruning hook,
- Reaping hook,
- Red Hook,
- Sail hook,
- Sandy Hook,
- Shave hook,
- Side hook,
- Sister hooks,
- Spring hook,
- Swamp hook,
- Swivel hook,
- To go off the hooks,
- V hook,
- Warping hook,
- Wed hook,
- Weed hook,
- Weeding hook,
- Welsh hook,
- arrester hook,
- bench hook,
- clip hook,
- cranging hook,
- cup hook,
- dog hook,
- fire hook,
- grappling hook,
- hook and ladder,
- hook bones,
- hook of holland,
- hook shot,
- hook spanner,
- hooke's law,
- match hook,
- meat hook,
- meat hooks,
- reap hook,
- robert hooke,
- Hook-nosed,
- India Hook, SC,
- Marcus Hook, PA,
- Red Hook, NY,
- Sandy Hook, KY,
- Tenter-hook,
- To be on the tenter-hooks,
- hook and ladder truck,
- hook line and sinker,
- hook-and-ladder,
- hook-billed,
- hook-shaped,
- Hook-billed marlin,
- hook-and-ladder company,
- hook-and-ladder truck