hook

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/hʊk/

noun 6verb 5name 5

Collocations

ADJ.

glorious, next, right

She finally got her right hook working perfectly after months of boxing training.

VERB + HOOK

baited, coat

She baited the hook with a small piece of fish before casting her line into the river.

HOOK + NOUN

bag, door, dude, pie

She hung her hook bag on the back of the bedroom door.

PREP.

off, on

I hung my coat on the hook by the front door when I got home.

ADV.

easily

The fish came off the hook easily during the struggle.

Definitions

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.

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

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...]

The curved needle used in the art of crochet.

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

verb

To attach a hook to.

Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

To become attached, as by a hook.

The utensil holder hooks onto the side of the dishrack.

To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

No one seems to want anything but hooked mats now.

To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.

name

A surname.

A number of places in the United Kingdom:

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfe

noun — a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hol

claw

noun — anything that serves as an enticement

noun — a sharp curve or crook

crotchet

verb — approach with an offer of sexual favors

verb — entice and trap

snare

verb — to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on someth

addict

verb — make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping threa

crochet

verb — make off with belongings of others

verb — rip off

verb — take by theft

snitch
thieve
cop
glom

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

off the hook

Relieved of a duty, burden, responsibility, or pressure.

When the boss assigned the project to Tom, the rest of us were relieved to be off the hook.

by hook or by crook

By any means possible; one way or another.

She was determined to win the contract by hook or by crook.

hook up

To hook something together.

ring off the hook

Of a telephone, to ring constantly or excessively.

I placed the advertisement yesterday, and the phone has been ringing off the hook ever since.

sling one's hook

To leave, depart, especially if forced to do so.

‘I don’t want none of your apologies, and I don’t want none of you neither; I don’t like the looks of you, and so I tell you. Before I let anybody into my house you’ll have to slin

Example Bank

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...]

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

Wiktionary

The utensil holder hooks onto the side of the dishrack.

Wiktionary

He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

Wiktionary

Hang your coat on the hook.

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