Hooks can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| hook - hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left | ||
| hook - fasten with a hook | ||
| hook - entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers" | ||
| hook - take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" | ||
| hook - approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" | ||
| hook - catch with a hook; "hook a fish" | ||
| hook - hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly" | ||
| hook - secure with the foot; "hook the ball" | ||
| hook - to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | ||
| hook - make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day" | ||
| hook - rip off; ask an unreasonable price | ||
| hook - make off with belongings of others | ||
Noun |
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| hooks - large strong hand (as of a fighter); "wait till I get my hooks on him" |
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| 1. | noun | Wait till I get my hooks on him. | |
| 2. | noun | They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. | |
| 3. | noun | She fixed hooks to the window frame. | |
| 4. | noun | Tom hung his coat on one of the hooks near the door. | |
| 5. | noun | bell hooks doesn’t capitalise her pen name. | |
| 6. | noun | Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it. | |
| 7. | noun | Each had a separate employ — in sharpening the pruning hooks, in suspending the mill-stone for pounding the grapes, after they had been trodden underfoot, or in preparing dry osiers, stripped of their bark, which were to serve as torches, so that the must might be drawn off during the night. | |
| 8. | noun | I need to buy some fishing hooks. | |
| 9. | noun | Mary unfastened the hooks on her bra. | |
| 10. | noun | You really got your hooks into him, didn't you? | |
| 11. | noun | Eagles have nails shaped like hooks. | |
| 12. | noun | Cats' tongues are covered in little hooks made of keratin. | |
| 13. | noun | He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. | |
| 14. | noun | They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. | |
| 15. | noun | Hang your coat on the hook. | |
| 16. | verb | Hook a fish. | |
| 17. | verb | Hook the ball. | |
| 18. | verb | We'll hook you guys in by videoconference. |
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| noun | |
| Wait till I get my hooks on him. |
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| They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. | |
| She fixed hooks to the window frame. | |
| Tom hung his coat on one of the hooks near the door. | |
| bell hooks doesn’t capitalise her pen name. | |
| Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it. | |
| Each had a separate employ — in sharpening the pruning hooks, in suspending the mill-stone for pounding the grapes, after they had been trodden underfoot, or in preparing dry osiers, stripped of their bark, which were to serve as torches, so that the must might be drawn off during the night. | |
| I need to buy some fishing hooks. | |
| Mary unfastened the hooks on her bra. | |
| You really got your hooks into him, didn't you? | |
| Eagles have nails shaped like hooks. | |
| Cats' tongues are covered in little hooks made of keratin. | |
| He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. | |
| They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. | |
| Hang your coat on the hook. | |
| verb | |
| Hook a fish. |
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| Hook the ball. |
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| We'll hook you guys in by videoconference. |
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