hook

hook is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 10 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
2. noun. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
3. noun. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
4. noun. See Eccentric, and V-hook.
5. noun. A snare; a trap.
6. noun. A field sown two years in succession.
7. noun. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
8. transitive verb. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
9. transitive verb. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
10. transitive verb. To steal.
11. intransitive verb. To bend; to curve as a hook.
12. noun. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
13. noun. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
14. noun. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer

    "he took lessons to cure his hooking"

    Synonyms: draw, hooking

15. noun. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
16. noun. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

    Synonyms: claw

17. noun. a catch for locking a door
18. noun. anything that serves as an enticement

    Synonyms: bait, lure, sweetener

19. noun. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

    Synonyms: crotchet

20. verb. approach with an offer of sexual favors

    "he was solicited by a prostitute"

    "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

    Synonyms: accost, solicit

21. verb. entice and trap

    "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"

    Synonyms: snare

22. verb. secure with the foot

    "hook the ball"

23. verb. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

    Synonyms: addict

24. verb. fasten with a hook
25. verb. catch with a hook

    "hook a fish"

26. verb. hit with a hook

    "His opponent hooked him badly"

27. verb. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
28. verb. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

    "She sat there crocheting all day"

    Synonyms: crochet

29. verb. make off with belongings of others

    Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe

30. verb. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

    Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge

31. verb. take by theft

    "Someone snitched my wallet!"

    Synonyms: cop, glom, snitch, thieve

Synonyms

draw, hooking, claw, bait, lure, sweetener, crotchet, accost, solicit, snare, addict, crochet, abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe, fleece

Common word forms

hooks, hooked, hooker, hooking, hookless

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