hook
/hʊk/ verb B2- To attach a hook to. · Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.
- To become attached, as by a hook. · The utensil holder hooks onto the side of the dishrack.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish). · He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook. · He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook. · She's only here to try to hook a husband.· A free trial is a good way to hook customers.
- To connect (hook into, hook together). · If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.
- To make addicted; to captivate. · He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.· I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
He/she/it hooks · Past hooked · Past participle hooked · -ing form hooking
Verb forms
- Base form
- hook
- He/she/it
- hooks
- Past
- hooked
- Past participle
- hooked
- -ing form
- hooking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening.
The innkeeper himself was a man of from forty to fifty-five years of age, tall, strong, and bony, a perfect specimen of the natives of those southern latitudes; he had dark, sparkling, and deep-set eyes, hooked nose, and teeth white as those of a carnivorous animal; his hair, like his beard, which he wore under his chin, was thick and curly, and in spite of his age but slightly interspersed with a few silvery threads.
“How comes it that all do not retreat in aversion at sight of that flat, receding, serpent-like forehead, round, vulture-shaped head, and sharp-hooked nose, like the beak of a buzzard?
I shall work it out on my own hook.
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