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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. [informal] 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
    
4. [informal] Obsessed with or addicted to
   "hooked on the latest detective series"

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

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

Type of: accustom, catch, cheat, chisel [informal], entice, fasten, fix, furnish, grab, habituate, hit, intertwine, loop, lure, offer, play, provide, render, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], secure, steal, supply, take hold of, tempt

Antonym: unhook

Encyclopedia: Hooked