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ALL meanings of hooker

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  • noun hooker Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War. 1
  • noun hooker Richard, 1554?–1600, English author and clergyman. 1
  • noun hooker Thomas, 1586?–1647, English Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of the colony of Connecticut. 1
  • noun hooker The Mennonites were irreverently spoken of as Hookers, because they used hooks and eyes on their clothes instead of buttons. 1
  • noun hooker prostitute 1
  • noun hooker rugby position, player 1
  • noun hooker sb who crochets 1
  • countable noun hooker A hooker is a prostitute. 0
  • noun hooker a commercial fishing boat using hooks and lines instead of nets 0
  • noun hooker a sailing boat of the west of Ireland formerly used for cargo and now for pleasure sailing and racing 0
  • noun hooker a person or thing that hooks 0
  • noun hooker a draught of alcoholic drink, esp of spirits 0
  • noun hooker a prostitute 0
  • noun hooker the central forward in the front row of a scrum whose main job is to hook the ball 0
  • noun hooker John Lee. 1917–2001, US blues singer and guitarist 0
  • noun hooker Sir Joseph Dalton. 1817–1911, British botanist; director of Kew Gardens (1865–85) 0
  • noun hooker Richard. 1554–1600, British theologian, who influenced Anglican theology with The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593–97) 0
  • noun hooker Sir William Jackson. 1785–1865, British botanist; first director of Kew Gardens: father of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 0
  • noun hooker Joseph1814-79; Union general in the Civil War 0
  • noun hooker Richard1554-1600; Eng. clergyman & writer 0
  • noun hooker One who, or that which, hooks. 0
  • noun hooker Thomas1586?-1647; Eng. Puritan clergyman, in America after 1633 0
  • noun hooker A small fishing boat. 0
  • noun hooker one that hooks 0
  • noun hooker (nautical, slang, derogatory) Any antiquated craft. 0
  • noun hooker an undiluted drink of whiskey 0
  • noun hooker (rugby) A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot. 0
  • noun hooker an Irish or English fishing smack with one mast 0
  • noun hooker A crocheter. 0
  • noun hooker any clumsy, old ship 0
  • noun hooker (Slang) (dated) A measurement of alcohol without definite amounts, meaning the same thing as a "slug" (of gin), an overlarge gulp. Used from the 1920s through the 1940s. 0
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