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verb

Hook v. t. (past & past part. hooked; pres. part. hooking)

To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. "Hook him, my poor dear,... at any sacrifice."

To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

To steal. (Colloq. Eng. & U.S.)

To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.

Hook v. i.

To bend; to curve as a hook.

To move or go with a sudden turn; hence (Slang or Prov. Eng.), To make off; to clear out; often with it. "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it."

adjective

Hooked adj.

Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

Provided with a hook or hooks. "The hooked chariot."

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Etymology of 'Hooked'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hooked" Quotes from Famous Books

... general laugh at this, and with that laugh Peter knew that all hope of more fighting was gone. He bade them a sardonic good-night, hooked his arm through the orator's (who actually showed signs of an intention to resume his speech), and bore him ...

— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... contraction of the chest but, hung on a hook by a strap over the shoulders, it would brace the body and back and expand the chest. The cavalrymen were to be rendered more secure in their seats when hooked to a ring in the saddle. All commissioned officers were to carry a light twenty-foot pole, with a ring attached to the end, to be used during an engagement in drawing stragglers back into the ranks. He made a drawing of a tremendous battle ...

— As I Remember - Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century • Marian Gouverneur

... but at sunset the French were broken, and we swept after the rout as well as we could through the litter, along the southward roads. We were at a halt for a minute, I remember, when a rider in a chapeau with a plume, and a hooked nose underneath, trotted up, wrapped in a military cloak, and somebody said it was Wellington." Grandfather was sure to be at a white heat before he had finished, and so, too, his audience. The athletic student ...

— The Last Leaf - Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America - and Europe • James Kendall Hosmer

... Jack hooked out a couple that were leaning folded against the low wall of yew beneath the window and set ...

— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson

... head, and her curls tumbled loose over her shoulders. Sanin was just going to get off his horse to pick up the hat, but she shouted to him, 'Don't touch it, I'll get it myself,' bent low down from the saddle, hooked the handle of her whip into the veil, and actually did get the hat. She put it on her head, but did not fasten up her hair, and again darted off, positively holloaing. Sanin dashed along beside her, by her side leaped trenches, fences, ...

— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev

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