Meaning of hook off | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To unhook or remove from a hook.
2. To curve to the side from a straight trajectory.
3. To remove with a hooking motion.
4. To depart, especially when finishing something or giving up on something.
   slang
5. To punch with the arm rigid and partially bent.

Examples

“At about 4.5 p.m. it come back, tender in front, with 15 or 16 waggons, and stopped with the last of the waggons clear of No. 7; about five were hooked off and let down into the siding by gravity, and as soon as I had restored No. 7 point for the main line, the driver had put the engine into foraward motion and was just upon starting when the collision took place at 4.8 p.m. three minutes before the passenger train was due in the station.”

“The guard then hooked off the engine and told us to run round the train with the engine.”

“We then found out we were in the wrong place, so the trailers had to be hooked off to turn the Jeeps round.”

“I hooked off a policeman's coat and cap, and put them on.”

“The road you were on would change; you'd be driving on 35, and if you missed the small road that hooked off to the left, you'd suddenly be on 211.”

“Long black hair tied back in a real flip-pin' ponytail; smooth white skin; black, flashing eyes; and eyebrows that hooked off like they wanted to get somewhere real fast.”

“From there the concrete drive hooked off to the left and ran straight south to the street, Black Ironwood.”

“Bastable says he foozled his kick and that the can hooked off to his right," said Burford.”

“Rub-a-rub, rub-a-rub, three dabs and scrub, Two covers hooked off the arm-chairs Them dusters and towels, each marked with two vowels, Will bring a good thing, I declares!”

“The telephone rang and Pearce hooked off the receiver.”

“Will hooked off his T-shirt.”

“"Somebody has hooked off with your pie," he blurted in a desponding tone.”

“"I expect he was ashamed to give it [a present] after all," Oswald said, "so he hooked off home with it."”

“On the day previous to the accident I signed on duty at 7.55 a.m. and hooked off at 8.10 p.m.”

“So I just hooked off by my own, and got 'em sheared.”

“'You know as well as I do that Mole hooked off to the riverbank, leaving his paint and brush behind, instead of falling off his ladder and causing a major incident.”

“I'm getting good money—five-and-twenty bob a week without perks”— I suppose he meant perquisites—“besides money in the bank, and a few sticks towards a home, including a drawing-room settee in sky-blue satin what I got from a friend of mine whose wife hooked off with another bloke.”

“Cody hooked off his jab and tagged Ray with a smart left.”

“AJ turned to me and Juan hooked off on him.”

“Ryan hooked off his jab.”

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