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hook English

Meaning hook meaning

What does hook mean?
Definitions in simple English

hook

A hook is a curved, sharp thing, usually made of metal and often small. Someone can put the hook through a hole in something to grip it so that they can pull the thing.

hook

If you are hooking something, you are attaching it to a hook. Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

hook

fasten with a hook hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left a catch for locking a door (= crochet) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle She sat there crocheting all day (= overcharge) rip off; ask an unreasonable price (= snitch) take by theft Someone snitched my wallet! catch with a hook hook a fish hit with a hook His opponent hooked him badly secure with the foot hook the ball (= solicit) approach with an offer of sexual favors he was solicited by a prostitute The young man was caught soliciting in the park (= snare) entice and trap The car salesman had snared three potential customers a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent (= hooking) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer he took lessons to cure his hooking a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (= hook shot) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket (= addict) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) (= bait) anything that serves as an enticement (= pilfer) make off with belongings of others

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hook · verb

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Simple sentences

Hang your coat on the hook.
Hang your hat on the hook.
That party was off the hook, dude!
I'd hang the people who did this to me on a meat hook.
We still have to look for the hook.
Tom took the hook out of the fish's mouth.
He fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
She swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Tom took the key off of the hook it was hanging on.
Tom took off his coat and hung it on the hook behind the door.
Tom put bait on the hook.
You're just trying to get off the hook by blaming it on Tom.
Everyone will be expecting you at the party. You have to show up by hook or by crook.
Tom hung his jacket on a hook.
He hung his coat on a hook.
I put bait on the hook.
I baited the hook.
I think it's time for me to put new bait on the hook.
Tom put a worm on the hook.

Movie subtitles

It looks like I can't just let you off the hook.
I helped my client, Moshe, through a very complicated subdivision deal, and he said he could hook me up with non-blood diamonds at a discount.
Bought it, hook, line and sinker.
So, who are you gonna hook up with tonight?
Do I hook up the reddish horse or the bay?
Hook up our dress.
You're here on your own hook.
Coast-to-coast hook up.
A poet with a straight left and a right hook?
Here's a hook.
Bait your hook.
Can I take him off the hook?
My father, he have hook in his arm right here.
Hook coming out.
Thompson, get your hook and line.
If the hook don't kill him, that pork will.
Would you ask your wife to hook up with that ape?
Not yet on your hook, but rising to the bait.
The hook.
Learn to run with the bait Then just leave them the hook I got to sing every time I get mad.
Let me throw a hook.
It's a big fucking setback to lose a member of my crew, so I paid off Patti to hook a patsy from Nick's crew.
I thought about it, I realized that wouldn't really change things. Let's hook back outside.
Lefty landed a light left hook to the stomach and Moore promptly dropped on his back.
Jerry is wide open and is jolted by a terrific left hook that sent him to his heels.
But with Legrand on the hook, I'm going to have it easier now.
I throw him a right hook, and he goes down for the count.
If the bulls hook me up with you, I'm sunk. - Ah.
Isn't it more reasonable to hook this up from that angle?
Did he hook you too?
Then hook a rich patron.

News and current affairs

During the crisis, taxpayers were on the hook for almost a quarter of national income.
If not for the Cold War's end, the West would not have let China off the hook over those killings.
Because supervisors' decisions affect individuals' property rights - and their actions or omissions can put taxpayers on the hook to bail out banks - governments, parliaments, and the courts are bound to hold the watchdogs on a tight leash.
France would be off the reform hook, of course, but at the expense of Germany, which would face unwanted inflationary pressures.
Trembling politicians then usually acquiesce and put their taxpayers on the hook.
The ECB's willingness to buy ABSs is especially risky and creates a new element of joint liability in the eurozone, with European taxpayers on the hook in the event of a loss.
For, if Mugabe can be let off the hook, will NEPAD's peer review process ever work?
Thus, national taxpayers will remain on the hook for bankers' losses.
Moreover, Germany is on the hook in either case: if the euro or the economies on the periphery collapse, the costs to Germany will be high.
The rich like to blame the poor, partly because it lets them off the hook, and partly because it gives them a feeling of moral superiority.
When they are plainly wrong, why let them off the hook?
This is remarkable in a country that for as long as anyone remembers has been ruled, by hook or by crook, by a reactionary oligarchy.
If Hitler had been alive in October 1945, the 21 indictees who were in fact tried at Nuremberg would not have been let off the hook.
Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
While JPM is now off the hook, holding individual employees personally accountable for their behavior is still an option.
Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that, by hook or by crook, Putin will spend six more years as Russia's ruler.
That provides all the more reason to get them off the hook via structural and other banking reforms.
But their nationality seems to have let them off the hook.
By seeking to cling to power by hook or by crook, Yanukovych is likely to bring on the deluge.
In the end, there is a high likelihood that if such a plan is ultimately adopted, American taxpayers will be left on the hook.
China speaks for the developing world in demanding to be let off the hook from committing to a specific national carbon-reduction target.

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