ALL meanings of hooks
Hooks
H h - noun hooks a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something. 1
- noun hooks a fishhook. 1
- noun hooks anything that catches; snare; trap. 1
- noun hooks 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 hooks something having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end, as a mark or symbol. 1
- noun hooks a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything. 1
- noun hooks a curved arm of land jutting into the water; a curved peninsula: Sandy Hook. 1
- noun hooks a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant. 1
- noun hooks a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener. 1
- noun hooks 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 hooks Boxing. a short, circular punch delivered with the elbow bent. 1
- noun hooks 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 hooks Metalworking. an accidental short bend formed in a piece of bar stock during rolling. 1
- noun hooks hooks, Slang. hands or fingers: Get your hooks off that cake! 1
- noun hooks Underworld Slang. a pickpocket. 1
- noun hooks 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 hooks to seize, fasten, suspend from, pierce, or catch hold of and draw with or as if with a hook. 1
- verb with object hooks to catch (fish) with a fishhook. 1
- verb with object hooks Slang. to steal or seize by stealth. 1
- verb with object hooks Informal. to catch or trick by artifice; snare. 1
- verb with object hooks (of a bull or other horned animal) to catch on the horns or attack with the horns. 1
- verb with object hooks to catch hold of and draw (loops of yarn) through cloth with or as if with a hook. 1
- verb with object hooks to make (a rug, garment, etc.) in this fashion. 1
- verb with object hooks Sports. to hit or throw (a ball) so that a hook results. 1
- verb with object hooks Boxing. to deliver a hook with: The champion hooked a right to his opponent's jaw. 1
- verb with object hooks Rugby. to push (a ball) backward with the foot in scrummage from the front line. 1
- verb with object hooks to make hook-shaped; crook. 1
- verb without object hooks Slang. to work as a prostitute. 1
- idioms hooks by hook or by crook, by any means, whether just or unjust, legal or illegal. Also, by hook or crook. 1
- idioms hooks get / give the hook, Informal. to receive or subject to a dismissal: The rumor is that he got the hook. 1
- idioms hooks hook it, Slang. to run away; depart; flee: He hooked it when he saw the truant officer. 1
- idioms hooks hook, line, and sinker, Informal. entirely; completely: He fell for the story—hook, line, and sinker. 1
- idioms hooks 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 hooks on one's own hook, Informal. on one's own initiative or responsibility; independently. 1
- idioms hooks 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
- noun hooks Plural form of hook. 1
- noun hooks plural of hook. 0
- verb hooks third-person singular simple present indicative form of hook. 0