hook
noun
1. a catch for locking a door
Definition categories: man–made, catch
2. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
Similar word(s): crotchet
Definition categories: shape, curve
3. anything that serves as an enticement
Similar word(s): bait, lure, sweetener
Definition categories: thought, enticement, temptation
4. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
Similar word(s): claw
Definition categories: man–made
5. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
Definition categories: man–made, implement
6. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- he took lessons to cure his hooking
Similar word(s): draw, hooking
Definition categories: act, swing
7. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
Definition categories: act, biff, clout, lick, poke, punch, slug
8. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
Definition categories: act
Sentences with hook as a noun:
- The song's hook snared me.
- He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
- He threw a hook in the dirt.
- 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.
- The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
verb
1. fasten with a hook
Definition categories: contact, fasten, fix, secure
2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price
Similar word(s): fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge
Definition categories: possession, cheat, chisel
3. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
Similar word(s): crochet
Definition categories: creation, intertwine, loop
4. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
Definition categories: contact, hit
5. take by theft
Similar word(s): cop, glom, snitch, thieve
Definition categories: possession, rip, steal
6. make off with belongings of others
Similar word(s): abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe
Definition categories: possession, rip, steal
7. hit with a hook
- His opponent hooked him badly
Definition categories: contact, hit
8. catch with a hook
- hook a fish
Definition categories: contact, catch, grab
9. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
Similar word(s): addict
Definition categories: consumption, accustom, habituate
10. secure with the foot
- hook the ball
Definition categories: competition, play
11. entice and trap
Similar word(s): snare
Definition categories: communication, entice, lure, tempt
12. approach with an offer of sexual favors
Similar word(s): accost, solicit
Definition categories: communication, offer
Sentences with hook as a verb:
- Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
- He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
- She's only here to try to hook a husband.
- A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
- If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
- He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.
- I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
- The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
- I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.