ALL meanings of hook, line, and sinker
hook
H h - noun hook, line, and sinker a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker a fishhook. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker anything that catches; snare; trap. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker something that attracts attention or serves as an enticement: The product is good but we need a sales hook to get people to buy it. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker something having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end, as a mark or symbol. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker a curved arm of land jutting into the water; a curved peninsula: Sandy Hook. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker Sports. the path described by a ball, as in baseball, bowling, or golf, that curves in a direction opposite to the throwing hand or to the side of the ball from which it was struck. a ball describing such a path. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker Boxing. a short, circular punch delivered with the elbow bent. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker Music. Also called flag, pennant. a stroke or line attached to the stem of eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc. an appealing melodic phrase, orchestral ornament, refrain, etc., often important to a popular song's commercial success. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker Metalworking. an accidental short bend formed in a piece of bar stock during rolling. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker hooks, Slang. hands or fingers: Get your hooks off that cake! 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker Underworld Slang. a pickpocket. 1
- noun hook, line, and sinker Also called deck hook. Nautical. a triangular plate or knee that binds together the stringers and plating at each end of a vessel. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker to seize, fasten, suspend from, pierce, or catch hold of and draw with or as if with a hook. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker to catch (fish) with a fishhook. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker Slang. to steal or seize by stealth. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker Informal. to catch or trick by artifice; snare. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker (of a bull or other horned animal) to catch on the horns or attack with the horns. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker to catch hold of and draw (loops of yarn) through cloth with or as if with a hook. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker to make (a rug, garment, etc.) in this fashion. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker Sports. to hit or throw (a ball) so that a hook results. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker Boxing. to deliver a hook with: The champion hooked a right to his opponent's jaw. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker Rugby. to push (a ball) backward with the foot in scrummage from the front line. 1
- verb with object hook, line, and sinker to make hook-shaped; crook. 1
- verb without object hook, line, and sinker to become attached or fastened by or as if by a hook. 1
- verb without object hook, line, and sinker to curve or bend like a hook. 1
- verb without object hook, line, and sinker Sports. (of a player) to hook the ball. (of a ball) to describe a hook in course. 1
- verb without object hook, line, and sinker Slang. to depart hastily: We'd better hook for home. 1
- idioms hook, line, and sinker by hook or by crook, by any means, whether just or unjust, legal or illegal. Also, by hook or crook. 1
- idioms hook, line, and sinker get / give the hook, Informal. to receive or subject to a dismissal: The rumor is that he got the hook. 1
- idioms hook, line, and sinker hook it, Slang. to run away; depart; flee: He hooked it when he saw the truant officer. 1
- idioms hook, line, and sinker hook, line, and sinker, Informal. entirely; completely: He fell for the story—hook, line, and sinker. 1
- idioms hook, line, and sinker off the hook, out of trouble; released from some difficulty: This time there was no one around to get him off the hook. free of obligation: Her brother paid all her bills and got her off the hook. Slang. extremely or shockingly excellent: Wow, that song is off the hook! 1
- idioms hook, line, and sinker on one's own hook, Informal. on one's own initiative or responsibility; independently. 1
- idioms hook, line, and sinker on the hook, Slang. obliged; committed; involved: He's already on the hook for $10,000. subjected to a delaying tactic; waiting: We've had him on the hook for two weeks now. 1
- phrase hook, line, and sinker You can use hook, line, and sinker to emphasize that someone is tricked or forced into a situation completely. 0
- noun hook, line, and sinker completely 0
- noun hook, line, and sinker completely; altogether 0