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71hook — I. n. 1. Catch, clasp, hasp, bent holder, curved catch. 2. Snare, trap. 3. Sickle, reaping hook, reaper, cutter, grasshook. II. v. a. 1. Catch or fasten with a hook, take with a hook. 2. Catch, snare, ensnare, entrap. 3 …
72hook — n scythe, sickle; falchion, cutlass, scimitar, saber. 2. snag, trap, snare, springe, noose. 3. crook, angle, dogleg, hairpin turn, horseshoe, loop; curve, curvature, incurvature, bow, arc, turn, twist, tortuosity; bend, bending, flexion, flexure …
73hook — [OE] Hook and its Germanic relatives, German haken, Dutch haak, Swedish hake, and Danish hage, go back to a prehistoric *keg or *keng ‘bent object’, from which English also gets hank [14] (via Old Norse *hanku). Old Norse haki ‘hook’ was the… …
74hook — See: BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, GET THE HOOK at GET THE BOUNCE(2), GIVE THE HOOK at GIVE THE BOUNCE(2), OFF THE HOOK …
75hook — See: BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, GET THE HOOK at GET THE BOUNCE(2), GIVE THE HOOK at GIVE THE BOUNCE(2), OFF THE HOOK …
76hook — See: by hook or by crook, get the hook at get the bounce(2), give the hook at give the bounce(2), off the hook …
77hook up — 1) see hook 7) 2) PHRASAL VERB When someone hooks up a computer or other electronic machine, they connect it to other similar machines or to a central power supply. [V P n (not pron)] ...technicians who hook up computer systems and networks... [V …
78hook — 1. tv. to cheat someone. □ Watch the clerk in that store. He might try to hook you. □ They hooked me on the car deal. 2. tv. to steal something. □ Lefty hooked a couple of candy bars just for the hell of it. □ …
79hook sb up — UK US hook sb up (with sb/sth) Phrasal Verb with hook({{}}/hʊk/ verb [T] INFORMAL ► to arrange for someone to meet or work with another person or organization: »We videotape applicants in practice interviews and hook them up with employers …
80hook — Synonyms and related words: L, Long Melford, abstract, acquitted, all the way, allure, anchor, anchorage, and, and sinker, angle, angle off, annex, apex, appropriate, arc, arch, argue into, articulate, backhand, backhander, backstroke, bag, bait …