English Dictionary

hook

/hʊk/

noun

A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. / A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.

He used a hook to catch a fish.

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A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

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A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.

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Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.

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The curved needle used in the art of crochet.

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The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

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A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.

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A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.

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A snare; a trap.

A shop of all the qualities, that man

A shop of all the qualities, that man Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing,

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(in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.

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(informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.

He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.

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(agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.

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(authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.

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(narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.

The hook of Good Boys, Hollywood's latest odyssey of comic adolescent mischief, is that the kids behaving badly are, for once, truly kids.

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(bridge, slang) A finesse.

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(card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).

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(geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.

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(music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.

The song's hook snared me.

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(nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.

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(programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.

We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.

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(Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.

Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.

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(typography) a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.

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(typography, rare) a háček.

Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ˇ (as in haček – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robić – Polish for ‘do/make’).

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(baseball) A curveball.

He threw a hook in the dirt.

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(basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.

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(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.

However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.

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(boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc

The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.

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(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.

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(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)

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(Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.

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(slang) A prostitute.

I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know.

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(UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.

He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it.

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(surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)

This maneuver involves a sharp turn, back into the hook of the wave.