verb
- Fasten with a hook.
- synonyms: hook
- Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
- Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.
- usage: "She sat there crocheting all day"
- Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.
- synonyms: hook
- Take by theft.
- usage: "Someone snitched my wallet"
- Make off with belongings of others.
- Hit with a hook.
- usage: "His opponent hooked him badly"
- synonyms: hook
- Catch with a hook.
- usage: "hook a fish"
- synonyms: hook
- To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug.
- Secure with the foot.
- usage: "hook the ball"
- synonyms: hook
- Entice and trap.
- usage: "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
- Approach with an offer of sexual favors.
- usage: "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
adjective
- Curved down like an eagle's beak.
- synonyms: aquiline
- Addicted to a drug.
- synonyms: dependent, dependant, drug-addicted, strung-out
- Having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold. )
- usage: "hooklike thorns";
- synonyms: hooklike
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