hooked English

Meaning hooked meaning

What does hooked mean?

Definitions in simple English

hooked Adjective

— If you are hooked onto something, you are addicted to it; unable to resist.

— Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook. The eagle has a hooked beak.

hooked

— adjective (= aquiline) curved down like an eagle's beak

— adjective (= dependent) addicted to a drug

— adjective (= hooklike) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) hooklike thorns

Synonyms hooked synonyms

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hooked English » English

crooked

bent

addicted

hooklike

curved

strung-out

hamate

drug-addicted

dependent

dependant

caught

boomerang

aquiline

spiked

spear

slightly bent

moor

hook-shaped

hitch

flexed

curved downward

beaked

be hooked

barbed

Topics hooked topics

What do people use hooked to talk about?

Person Body Head

Nose

• What words describe a person's nose?
  pointed flat turned-up snub-nosed stubby wide long upturned hooked aquiline

States Quality Shape

Bend

• What words describe something that is bent?
  bent arched bowed crinkled curved curving curled devious gnarled gnarly hooked indirect jagged kinked knotted knotty knurled knurly turning twirled twisted

Daily life Food

Narcotic

• What words refer to being addicted to drugs?
  be addicted dependent be hooked

Examples hooked examples

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Simple sentences

It's a lot too thin that our henpecked husband in fact hooked up the wallflower.

He got hooked on drugs at a young age.

My cousin is hooked on smack.

Tom's hooked on cigarettes.

At first, I was only looking at the French sentences, but before I knew it, I was hooked into translating them.

Today I hooked my trailer up to my car, filled it with rubbish and took a very full load to the local rubbish dump.

Tom is hooked up to a respirator.

Movie subtitles

Nah, my Auntie Tina hooked me up.

Leave them wheelers hooked to them wagons.

Meantime, I believe you hooked your ball.

All right, get your teams hooked up.

How were you hooked up with him?

Well, we're hooked.

He made a normal approach, but misjudged his altitude and hooked a wing against a hangar.

I had him hooked good.

I guess I was never hooked up with any guys that wasn't wrong.

You knew you had Thursby hooked!

Lorenz is hooked.

You're hooked, and you know it.

I got the record changer all hooked up, sir.

The guy who wote The Bachelor's Bible getting hooked.

I hooked up with Lola, Tristan.

Leave only the wheelers hooked to the wagons.

He's hooked Walleye!

Get the teams hooked up. Let's move out.

You know, the girl who hooked Mr. Haines.

A lie! You knew you had Thursby hooked! You wanted to kill him before Jacoby came with the loot so you wouldn't have to split it with him.

Haven't you hooked him yet?

Oh, madame, I am so happy. At last you have hooked him.

I remember when I was young, I was hooked.

YES, BUT I WANT THIS ONE HOOKED.

Somebody hooked them.

It's hooked on back there.

No, he's hooked good.

I was just telling him about the big one we hooked onto last night.

That's how Sally Jackson hooked a Marine last year.

Are you hooked up with him?

Barnivel got me hooked. Don't remember him?

She's hooked herself some big brass.

You're hooked and you know it.

News and current affairs

Mistaking a solvency problem for a liquidity shortfall, Europe has become hooked on the drip feed of bailouts.

We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them.

Economies hooked on this model find themselves excessively specialized in primary products that promise little productivity growth.

The addictive potential is also identical: just as gamblers and cocaine users can become compulsive, needing to gamble or snort more and more to get the same dopamine boost, so can men consuming pornography become hooked.