'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
Anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener]
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
Take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom]
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
Approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" [syn: hook, solicit, accost]

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