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- A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook
- A brief, punchy opening statement intended to draw the reader or viewer into a book or play
- To engage in prostitution
I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity
He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j
- To ensnare someone, as if with a hook
A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.
- A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily
We've added user-defined codepoints in several places and careful definitions of what to do with unknown message types as hooks in the standard to enable implementations to be both backward and forward compatible to future versions of the standard.
- A jack (the playing card)
- To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends
- To attach a hook to
Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
- A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment
- A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish)
He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
- To make addicted; to captivate
I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
- {v} to fix on a hook, bend, catch, draw
- {n} a bent piece of iron snare, trap
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song
- A narrative trick in the lead paragraph that "hooks" a reader's attention and keeps them reading
- If you are hooked into something, or hook into something, you get involved with it. I'm guessing again now because I'm not hooked into the political circles Eager to hook into a career but can't find one right for you?
- anything that serves as an enticement
- If someone gets off the hook or is let off the hook, they manage to get out of the awkward or unpleasant situation that they are in. His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately
- That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- To play a hook shot
- If you hook your arm, leg, or foot round an object, you place it like a hook round the object in order to move it or hold it. She latched on to his arm, hooking her other arm around a tree
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
- If your phone is ringing off the hook, so many people are trying to telephone you that it is ringing constantly. Since war broke out, the phones at donation centers have been ringing off the hook
- To connect (hook into, hook together)
- A hook is a short sharp blow with your fist that you make with your elbow bent, usually in a boxing match. Lewis desperately needs to keep clear of Ruddock's big left hook
- If you hook into the Internet, you make a connection with the Internet on a particular occasion so that you can use it. an interactive media tent where people will be able to hook into the internet. Hook up means the same as hook. a UK firm that lets Britons hook up to the Internet
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he tooks lessons to cure his hooking"
- take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!"
- To steal
- entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
- Features, definitions, or codings that enable future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily
- {i} curved piece of metal or other material by which things are hung or attached; fishhook; curve, angle, sharp bend; short punch (Boxing)
- An assembler instruction inserted in the user application code that gives the Enterprise Toolkit for OS/390 Performance Analyzer control to perform analysis
- A short punchy opening sentence intended to draw the reader or viewer into a book or play
- hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly"
- A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- When you write your admissions essays, you'll want to engage your readers quickly Using your "hook," a unique personal trait or experience, is one way to achieve this goal If you're a dedicated and accomplished cellist, or have trekked through the Himalyas, these might make good starting points for college essays Your hook will be something about you that's unique and interesting
- A hook is a processing step where the handlers (callback procedures) registered for this Hook will be called In Apache 1 3, the hooks were defined by the module API, while Apache 2 allows adding new hooks
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something a catch for locking a door a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- means a single-, double- or triple-pointed hook on a common shaft, and includes hooks attached to a lure (Note: some legal lures appear to have a hook with four points, but actually have two shafts each with two points)
- a catch for locking a door
- Refers to the amount, measured in boards and angle, that a bowling ball deviates from its original trajectory during its path down the lane
- catch with a hook; "hook a fish"
- a hit that is executed by the batter swinging his bat around his body, and following up with a complete body turn, usually pivoting on one foot works best on a pitch that is moving away from the batter on his "leg" side (see definition)
- with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout
- approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- When a ball moves right to left for a right-handed player, left to right for a left-handed player I
- To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp
- - A clever phrase or melody used to capture the consumer's attention and help make the advertising message more memorable
- To block a following rider by moving the back wheel to the side
- A curveball
- If you take a phone off the hook, you take the receiver off the part that it normally rests on, so that the phone will not ring
- hook up: To have sexual intercourse with
- The item of information that attracts the attention of the new personnel as a potential news angle
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day"
- The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; called also hook bones
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore
- The shape of the hull where the bottom is concave, rather than at or near the transom Opposite of a Rocker A hook can be caused by insufficient support from the Trailer, failure of the Hull, or actually designed into the hull
- (or Hook Echo) a radar reflectivity pattern characterized by a hook- or crescent-shaped extension of a thunderstorm echo, usually in the right-rear part of the storm (relative to its direction of motion) A hook often is associated with a mesocyclone, and indicates favorable conditions for tornado development