Dictionary Entry
crook
crook is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
- 2noun
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
- 3noun
The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
- 4noun
A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
- 5noun
A pothook.
- 6noun
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
- 7noun
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- 8noun
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
- 9noun
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
- 10noun
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- 11intransitive verb
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
- 12noun
a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- 13noun
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
Synonyms
- 14noun
a circular segment of a curve
"a bend in the road"
"a crook in the path"
- 15verb
bend or cause to bend
"He crooked his index finger"
"the road curved sharply"
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