Sekirov Dictionary

hook

/hʊk/

noun37

  1. a thin bar bent like the letter J, often fixed to a wall or a rope, used to catch or hold things
  2. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
  3. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
  4. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  5. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
  9. a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
  10. A curveball.
  11. A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
  12. A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
  13. The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
  14. An advantageous hold.
  15. (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
  16. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
  17. Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
  18. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
  19. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
  20. A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
  24. (rare) A háček.
  25. A snare; a trap.
  26. (slang) A prostitute.
  27. (informal) A ship's anchor.
  28. 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.
  29. A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
  30. (Australia, Canada) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
  31. [in the plural] The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  32. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
  33. (slang) A finesse.
  34. A field sown two years in succession.
  35. Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
  36. (historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
  37. (slang, no longer used) A pickpocket.

verb21

  1. To attach a hook to.
  2. To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
  3. To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
  4. To make addicted; to captivate.
  5. To acquire as a spouse.
  6. To become attached, as by a hook.
  7. To connect (hook into, hook together).
  8. To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
  9. To bend; to be curved.
  10. To move or go with a sudden turn.
  11. To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
  12. (slang) To engage in prostitution.
  13. To play a hook shot.
  14. To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
  15. To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
  16. (slang) To play hooky; to skip school or a class
  17. To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
  18. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
  19. To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
  20. (slang) To finesse.
  21. (slang, no longer used) To steal.
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hooked · hooking · hooketh · hooks · hookest · Hooks

Phrases with hook

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