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.
Definitions
- noun. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
- noun. Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
- noun. The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
- noun. A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
- noun. A pothook.
- noun. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
- noun. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- noun. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
- noun. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
- noun. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- intransitive verb. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
- noun. a long staff with one end being hook shaped
- noun. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- noun. a circular segment of a curve
"a bend in the road"
"a crook in the path"
- verb. bend or cause to bend
"He crooked his index finger"
"the road curved sharply"
Synonyms
criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw, bend, turn, twist, curve
Common word forms
crooks, crooked, crooken, crooker, crookes, crookest, crooking
Words from these letters
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