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?
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
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
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"