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Hooking   /hˈʊkɪŋ/   Listen
Hooking

noun
1.
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.  Synonyms: draw, hook.


Hook

verb
(past & past part. hooked; pres. part. hooking)
1.
Fasten with a hook.
2.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.
3.
Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.  Synonym: crochet.
4.
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.
5.
Take by theft.  Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve.
6.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe.
7.
Hit with a hook.
8.
Catch with a hook.
9.
To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug).  Synonym: addict.
10.
Secure with the foot.
11.
Entice and trap.  Synonym: snare.
12.
Approach with an offer of sexual favors.  Synonyms: accost, solicit.  "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"



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"Hooking" Quotes from Famous Books



... had always tended to die down somewhat. With forty-two square feet of sail, the twenty-mile wind was too much for us, the sledge capsizing on the smallest pretext. Instead of hanging the yard from the top of the mast, we placed it across the load, reversing the sail and hooking the clews over the top of the mast. Three or four pieces of lampwick at intervals served as reefing-points by which the area of the sail could be quickly cut down by bunching the upper part as ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... putty goot stories apout you Rofer poys," went on Mr. Schmidt, while he was hooking up his horse. "You vos on der ...
— The Rover Boys on the Farm - or Last Days at Putnam Hall • Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
... began to triumph over his physical torture. By indomitable force of will he compelled his groping hands to seize a life-line, almost meaningless to his dazed intelligence; and through that nightmare incarnate of hellish torture he fought his way back to the control board. Hooking one leg around a standard, he made a seemingly enormous effort and drove the two switches back into their original positions; then fell flat upon the floor, weakly but in a wave of relief and thankfulness, as his racked body felt again the wonted phenomena of weight and ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... ship's steward can exist without possessing a more than average measure of executive ability. Dag Daughtry was a first-class ship's steward. Placing the Ancient Mariner in a nook of safety, and setting Big John to unlashing the remaining boat and hooking on the falls, he sent Kwaque into the hold to fill kegs of water from the scant remnant of supply, and Ah Moy to clear out the ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... expected to simplify and speed the hooking together of automatic and voice-hand-operated telephone exchanges, and also to speed long-distance calls from automatic ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various


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