Meaning of off the hooks | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Unhinged; disturbed; disordered.
   colloquial
2. Superseded.
   archaic, colloquial
3. Dead.
   archaic, colloquial

Examples

“Or was Erskine out of his mind? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head? Were they not all three perhaps a little off the hooks?”

“In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightily off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river.”

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