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Hooked

verb
/hʊkt/
Word Frequency: 2.7

Definitions

1.verbTo attach a hook to.
"Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away."
2.verbTo catch with a hook (hook a fish).
"He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water."
3.verbTo work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
4.verbTo insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
"He hooked his fingers through his belt loops."
5.verbTo ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
"A free trial is a good way to hook customers."
6.verbTo steal.
7.verbTo connect (hook into, hook together).
"If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network."
8.verb(usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
"He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth."
9.verbTo play a hook shot.
10.verbTo succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
11.verbTo engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
"The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty."
12.verbTo swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
13.verbTo engage in prostitution.
"I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window."
14.verb(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
15.verbTo finesse.
16.verbTo seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
17.verbTo move or go with a sudden turn.
18.adjectiveHaving a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.
"a hooked nose"
19.adjectiveAddicted; unable to resist or cease doing.
"He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies."

Synonyms

addictedbentcrookedcurvedstrung-outdependantdependentaquilinedrug-addictedhamatehamoseclipped

Rhymes With

overlookedcookedlookedbookedprecookedbrookedrookedovercooked
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