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1. A bent or curved piece of metal or other material, used for hanging things from or pulling something with
   "put your coat on the hook"
    
2. A catch for locking a door
    
3. A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
   - crotchet
    
4. Anything that serves as an enticement
   - bait, come-on, lure, sweetener
    
5. A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
   - claw
    
6. A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
   "he took lessons to cure his hook";
   - draw, hooking
    
7. A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
    
8. A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
   - hook shot

1. Fasten with a hook
    
2. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price
   - overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump [Brit], fleece, plume, pluck, rob
    
3. (handicraft) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
   "She sat there hooking all day";
   - crochet
    
4. (golf) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
    
5. Take by theft
   "Someone hooked my wallet!";
   - snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom
    
6. Make off with belongings of others
   - pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch [Brit], abstract, snarf [N. Amer], swipe, sneak, filch [informal], nobble [Brit], lift, snatch, whip [Brit], nick [Brit, informal]
    
7. (boxing) hit with a hook
   "His opponent hooked him badly"
    
8. Catch with a hook
   "hook a fish"
    
9. To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
   - addict
    
10. (rugby) secure with the foot
    "hook the ball"
     
11. Entice and trap
    "The car salesman had hooked three potential customers";
    - snare
     
12. Approach with an offer of sexual favours
    "he was hooked by a prostitute";
    - solicit, accost

Sounds like: holy, wholly, hohook, H

Derived forms: hooked, hooks, hooking

See also: hook up

Type of: accustom, basketball shot, biff, catch, cheat, chisel, clout, curve, curved shape, dong [Austral, NZ], entice, enticement, fasten, fix, golf shot, golf stroke, grab, habituate, hit, implement, intertwine, lick, loop, lure, mechanical device, offer, play, poke, punch, rip off, secure, slug, steal, swing, take hold of, tempt, temptation

Antonym: unhook

Part of: clothes hanger, coat hanger, dress hanger, grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron, hanger

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