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1. Curved down like an eagle's beak
   "When you take the unique shape of Swarovski's hooked crystal beads and drill them on top, you have an amazingly striking pendant";
   - aquiline
    
2. Addicted to a drug
   - dependent, drug-addicted, strung-out
    
3. Having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)
   "hooked thorns";
   - hooklike

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

See also: addicted, crooked, curved, curving, hook up

Type of: accustom, catch, cheat, chisel, entice, fasten, fix, grab, habituate, hit, intertwine, loop, lure, offer, play, rip off, secure, steal, take hold of, tempt

Antonym: unhook

Encyclopedia: Hooked