Hook - English meaning
Hook – definitions in English dictionary
nounA piece of metal or other hard material curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on.
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A picture hooknounA thing designed to catch people's attention.
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Companies are looking for a sales hooknounA curved cutting instrument, especially as used for reaping or shearing.
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He arranged two lines of men with flails, clubs, pitchforks, sickles, and reaping hooks.nounA short swinging punch made with the elbow bent and rigid, especially in boxing.
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A perfectly timed right hook to the chinnounA curved stroke in handwriting.
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Kurtz notes, ‘the small hooks at the end of the "t" and the "i" indicate a writer who is tenacious,…nounA curved promontory or sand spit.
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The united states owned the entire promontory of sandy hook.
verbAttach or fasten with a hook or hooks.
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The truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgateverbCatch with a hook.
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He hooked a 24 lb pikeverbAttract and hold the attention of; captivate.
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I was hooked by john's radical zealverbHit (the ball) round to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height; hit a ball delivered by (the bowler) with such a stroke.
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When he hooks a ball over square-leg it is with the cheek associated with schoolboys.verbSecure (the ball) and pass it backwards with the foot in the scrum.
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This is done by hooking the ball with the soft swinging motion of one of the feet as the teams 8-ma…
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Word origin
Old English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’.
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