Meaning of hook | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
4. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
   countable, uncountable
5. A hamlet in Wimblington parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF4293).
   countable, uncountable
6. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
7. A hamlet in Chardstock parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST3005).
   countable, uncountable
8. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
9. A village and civil parish near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7625).
   countable, uncountable
10. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
11. A suburb in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1865).
    countable, uncountable
12. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
13. A large village and civil parish in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7254).
    countable, uncountable
14. A hamlet in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5005).
    countable, uncountable
15. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
16. A hamlet in Timsbury parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6758).
    countable, uncountable
17. A snare; a trap.
18. A village in Lydiard Tregoze parish, near Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0784).
    countable, uncountable
19. An advantageous hold.
20. A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9711).
    countable, uncountable
21. The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
    in-plural
22. A rural locality in South Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River.
    countable, uncountable
23. Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
    informal
24. A field sown two years in succession.
25. A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
    informal
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. A finesse.
    slang
29. A jack (the playing card).
    slang
30. A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
31. A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
32. A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
33. A ship's anchor.
    informal
34. Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
35. 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.
36. A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
37. A háček.
    rare
38. Senses relating to sports.
39. A curveball.
40. 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.
41. A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
42. a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
43. 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.
44. A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
45. The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
46. Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
    Australia, Canada
47. A prostitute.
    slang
48. A pickpocket.
    UK, obsolete, slang
49. Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
50. 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.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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: [...]”

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

““What makes you so sure that nobody knows you've got a hook into him?” Ward asked.”

“He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.”

“Much of the Two in Twenty humor is insider stuff; this soap is clearly made for lesbians who have been around the city block, with a few road trips to Michigan. Gay men may love it as well, and others with a hook into contemporary urban dyke life.”

“If you're struggling to get a hook on the scale of it, that's the North Stand at Leicester Tigers, plus six Peter Crouches, or half a Clock Tower.”

“The hook of Good Boys, Hollywood's latest odyssey of comic adolescent mischief, is that the kids behaving badly are, for once, truly kids.”

“The song's hook snared me.”

“Guitarist Jade Puget and vocalist Davey Havok have distilled AFI’s strengths (a ferocious, post-hardcore rhythmic backbone; goth-tinctured, post-punky guitars; and Havok’s desperate, dramatic croon) into 14 taut, hook-driven songs.”

“We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.”

“In lieu of those unneeded hooks, write code to fail fast and prevent gaps from becoming a problem.”

“Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.”

“Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ˇ (as in haček – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robić – Polish for ‘do/make’).”

“In Czech, palatalization is normally indicated by the symbol ˇ, called haček or “hook.””

“2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to Česko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.”

“He threw a hook in the dirt.”

“However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.”

“The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.”

“American Ward was too quick and too slick for his British rival, landing at will with razor sharp jabs and hooks and even bullying Froch at times.”

“I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know.”

“He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it.”

“"Everybody's a tool over there. Everybody's a hook, except them four guys on the points of the compass. They are eight or ten strong over there." But all professional pickpockets, however expert or however clumsy, operate on the basis of the situation just outlined.”

“This maneuver involves a sharp turn, back into the hook of the wave.”

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