Meaning of hooker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A prostitute.
   US, slang
2. Alternative spelling of hookah.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A small fishing boat.
4. A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of hooks.
5. One who, or that which, hooks.
6. An imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.
   dated, slang
7. Any antiquated craft.
   derogatory, slang
8. A number of places in the United States:
9. An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California.
10. A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
11. A drink of undiluted hard liquor: a hooker of whiskey.
12. An unincorporated community in Dade County, Georgia.
13. Slang. any old-fashioned or clumsy vessel.
14. A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.
15. An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
16. The central forward in the front row of the scrum whose main job it is to hook the ball with his heel to a teammate.
17. A crocheter.
18. Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”).
    dated, informal
19. A ghost town in Pulaski County, Missouri.
20. Slang. A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment:bawd, call girl, camp follower, courtesan, harlot, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, whore.
21. A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
    archaic
22. Two townships in Nebraska, in Dixon County and Gage County.
23. A single-masted fishing smack used off the coast of Ireland.
24. An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Ohio.
25. An old worn-out or clumsy ship.
26. A small city in Texas County, Oklahoma.
27. One that hooks.
28. Slang A prostitute.
    Slang
29. An unincorporated community in Turner County, South Dakota.
30. (Fishing) a commercial fishing boat using hooks and lines instead of nets
31. (Nautical Terms) a sailing boat of the west of Ireland formerly used for cargo and now for pleasure sailing and racing

Equivalents

Examples

“Hooker Dylan Hartley was sent to the sin-bin after yet another infringement at the breakdown and, on the stroke of half-time, Georgia's territorial advantage finally told when number⟳ eight Basilaia surged over from the base⟳ of the scrum for a try⟳ next to the posts.”

“I once saw⟳ Hassett drop England opening batsman and compulsive hooker, Cyril Washbrook, twice in succession at deep fine leg.”

“We regard the first seven seconds of a television commercial as the most critical or crucial in the whole unit — the "Do or Die⟳ Seven" — the "moment of decision" or the "hooker", if you will, when we must capture⟳ the attention of the viewer, get⟳ him involved in the action, […]”

“They are sure to be clyd in the night by the angler, or hooker, or such like⟳ pilferers that liue upon the spoyle of other poore people.”

“Suffer⟳ none, from far or near, / With their rights to interfere⟳; / No strange Abram, Ruffler crack— / Hooker of another pack⟳—”

“All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record⟳ label⟳”

“Emily had cut⟳ short these 3 A.M. glooms with a hooker of bourbon.”

“In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]”

“[T]he poor Flash⟳ is gone, and there is an end⟳ of it. Poor old hooker. Hey, Almayer? You made a voyage or two with me. Wasn’t she a sweet craft?”

“[…] for there was scarce one of us that thought the old hooker would weather so long and hard a blow⟳. We were mighty fortunate to come⟳ through it so handily.”

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