Hook

Noun



 * 1) A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
 * 2) A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
 * 3) Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook
 * 4) A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
 * 5) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
 * The song's hook snared me.
 * 1) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to draw the reader or viewer into a book or play.
 * 2)  Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
 * He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A curveball.
 * He threw a hook in the dirt.
 * 1)  A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily.
 * ''We've added "user-defined" codepoints in several places and careful definitions of what to do with unknown message types as hooks in the standard to enable implementations to be both backward and forward compatible to future versions of the standard.
 * 1)  A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  A jack (the playing card)

Derived terms

 * by hook or by crook
 * grappling hook


 * hook, line and sinker
 * hook shot


 * on the hook

Verb

 * 1)  To attach a hook to.
 * Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
 * 1)  To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
 * He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
 * 1)  To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
 * She's only here to try to hook a husband.
 * A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
 * 1)  To connect (hook into, hook together).
 * If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
 * 1) (Usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
 * He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
 * I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
 * 1)  To play a hook shot.
 * 2)  To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
 * The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
 * 1)  To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
 * 2)  To engage in prostitution.
 * I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.
 * I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

Derived terms

 * hooker
 * hook up

Adjectives for Hook
nail; peg; rusty; anchoring.

Thesaurus
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Etymology
From hoke:, from  hoc:, from  (cf. West Frisian/Dutch hoek: 'hook, angle, corner', Low German undefined:, undefined: 'id.'), variant of *hakōn 'hook'. More at.

Noun

 * Bosnian: kuka
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: garfi
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 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: croc, uncino
 * Italian: gancio, gancetto


 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean: 갈고리 (galgori)
 * Latvian: āķis, ķeksis
 * Lithuanian: kablys, kabliukas, vąšelis
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: قلاب، چنگك، جا لباسي(qollâb,changak, jâ lebâsi)
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 * Telugu: కొక్కి


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 * Korean: 낚시 (nakksi)
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 * Latvian: āķis
 * Lithuanian: kabliukas, vąšelis
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian: قلاب ماهيگيري(qolâb mâhigiri)
 * Polish: haczyk
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 * Russian: хук (χuk)


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 * Japanese: フックシュート


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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フック
 * Macedonian: кроше (krošé)
 * Polish: sierpowy
 * Portuguese: ganhco
 * Russian: хук (χuk)
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 * : grep
 * : amu, kako
 * : ganxo
 * : kuka
 * : hoko, krampo
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 * : hamus
 * : ganciu, amu
 * : కొక్కెం (kokkeM)
 * : huk
 * : kanca

Verb

 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hænge
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: kiinnittää koukku
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Persian: گير دادن قلاب، آويزان كردن (gir dâdaneh qollâb, âvizân kardan)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: kroka,


 * Czech:
 * Danish: få på krogen, få til at bide på
 * Dutch: aan de haak slaan
 * Finnish: saada koukkuun
 * French: (un poisson) “to iron a fish”
 * German:
 * Interlingua: prender al hamo
 * Italian: prendere all'amo


 * Korean: 낚다 (nakkda)
 * Persian: به قلاب انداختن(beh qollâb andâkhtan)
 * Portuguese: fisgar
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tok Pisin: hukim


 * Czech:
 * Danish: koble
 * Dutch: in elkaar haken
 * Finnish:


 * German: einhaken
 * Persian: به قلاب وصل كردن(beh qollâb vasl kardan)
 * Russian: соединять
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: verslaven
 * Finnish: tehdä riippuvaiseksi


 * Spanish:
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 * Czech:
 * Finnish: koukkia


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