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"Hook" Definition

noun

A curved or barbed plant or animal part.
A curved or sharply bent device, usually of metal, used to catch, drag, suspend, or fasten something else.
A fishhook.
A means of catching or ensnaring; a trap.
A point or spit of land with a sharply curved end.

verb-transitive

Baseball To pitch (a ball) with a curve.
Basketball To shoot (a ball) in a hook shot.
Informal To snare.
Slang To cause to become addicted.
Slang To steal; snatch. See Synonyms at steal.

idiom

By hook or by crook By whatever means possible, fair or unfair.
Get the hook Slang To be unceremoniously dismissed or terminated.
Hook, line, and sinker Informal Without reservation; completely: swallowed the excuse hook, line, and sinker.
Off the hook Informal Freed, as from blame or a vexatious obligation: let me off the hook with a mild reprimand.

phrasal-verb

Hook up To assemble or wire (a mechanism).
Hook up To become romantically or sexually involved with someone.
Hook up To connect a mechanism and a source of power.
Hook up To marry or get married.
Hook up To meet or associate: We agreed to hook up after class. He hooked up with the wrong crowd.

verb-intransitive

Slang To work as a prostitute.
To bend like a hook.
To fasten by means of a hook or a hook and eye.

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