Meaning of Crook | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
2. A town (unparished) in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1635).
3. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
4. A village and civil parish (served by Crook and Winster Parish Council) in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD4695).
5. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
6. A statutory town in Logan County, Colorado, United States, named after George Crook.
7. A lock or curl of hair.
   obsolete
8. An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States, so named because of a local merchant's business practices (thus being derived from crook (thief)).
9. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
   obsolete
10. A surname.
11. A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
12. A bishop's standard staff of office.
13. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
14. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
15. A pothook.
16. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

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Examples

“She held the baby in the crook of her arm.”

“he walks bye lanes, and crooks”

“the crook of a cane”

“It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.”

“Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.”

“for all your brags, hooks, and crooks”

“In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.”

“1973 November 17, Richard Nixon, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I'm Not a Crook’, "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I′m not a crook. I′ve earned everything I′ve got."”

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