hook

Etymology
From, from , from , from , variant of , probably ultimately from , ,.

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) (compare 🇨🇬/🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ); also related to.

Noun

 * 1) A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
 * 2) A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
 * 3) Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
 * 4) The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
 * 5) The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
 * 6) A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
 * 7) A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
 * 8) A snare; a trap.
 * 9) An advantageous hold.
 * 10)  The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
 * 11)  Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
 * 12)  A field sown two years in succession.
 * 13)  A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
 * 14)  A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
 * 15)  A finesse.
 * 16)  A jack (the playing card).
 * 17)  A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
 * 18)  A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
 * 19)  A ship's anchor.
 * 20)  Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
 * 21)  An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
 * 22)  A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
 * 23)  A háček.
 * 24) * 2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown
 * In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to Česko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.
 * 1)  A curveball.
 * 2)  a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
 * 3)  A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
 * 4)  a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
 * 5)  A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
 * 6)  A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
 * 7) The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
 * 8)  Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
 * 9)  A prostitute.
 * 10)  A pickpocket.
 * 11)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
 * 1) * 2004, Keesing’s Record of World Events L:i–xii, page unknown
 * In detailing the proposed shortening of the Czech Republic to Česko…the hook (hacek) erroneously appeared over the letter “e” instead of the “C”.
 * 1)  A curveball.
 * 2)  a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
 * 3)  A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
 * 4)  a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
 * 5)  A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
 * 6)  A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
 * 7) The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
 * 8)  Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
 * 9)  A prostitute.
 * 10)  A pickpocket.
 * 11)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
 * 1)  A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
 * 2) The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
 * 3)  Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
 * 4)  A prostitute.
 * 5)  A pickpocket.
 * 6)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
 * 1)  A pickpocket.
 * 2)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
 * 1)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
 * 1)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
 * 1)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
 * 1)  A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خَطَّاف
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese:
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: ырғаҡ
 * Basque:, mako
 * Belarusian: крук, кручо́к
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: garfi, ,
 * Chakma:
 * Chechen: мӏара
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: higen, bagh
 * Crimean Tatar: ırğaq
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, knage,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: konks
 * Faroese: krókur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: gancho, cambito
 * Georgian: კაუჭი,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἀγκυλίς
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, आंकड़ा,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: croc, uncino
 * Irish: crúca
 * Italian:, gancetto,
 * Japanese:, フック, ホック,
 * Kashubian: hôk
 * Kazakh: ілгек, ілмек
 * Khmer: ទំពក់, តំពក់,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: илчек,
 * Lao:, ງ່ຽງ,
 * Latin: hāmus, uncus
 * Latvian: āķis, ķeksis, kāsis
 * Lithuanian: kablys, kabliukas, vąšelis
 * Macedonian: кука
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: croagane, dooan
 * Maori: pekapeka
 * Mi'kmaq: mgign
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old High German: krāpho
 * Old Norse: krókr, haki
 * Ottoman Turkish: چنگل, قانجه, قلاب
 * Persian:, , جا لباسی,
 * Polabian: oťai
 * Polish:, kotwiczka
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots: heuk
 * Scottish Gaelic: cromag, dubhan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ку̏ка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ལྕགས་ཀྱུ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: çeňňek
 * Tày: bết
 * Ukrainian: гак, га́чок
 * Urdu:, ہک
 * Uyghur: ئىلمەك, ئىلگەك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:, bachyn
 * Yiddish: קרוק, האָקן
 * Zazaki: qance, çengal


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: saranakoukku


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: klička
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: опашка
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Catalan:
 * German: Hookline
 * Irish: crúca
 * Italian:, parte orecchiabile
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 후렴구(後斂句)
 * Maori: aukume
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Danish:


 * Finnish:
 * Swedish:


 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: кука
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: хук


 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: hukki
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: kaaripallo
 * French: bras roulé
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: хо́рок, хо́рог


 * Arabic: لَكْمَة خُطَّافِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: кроше́
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 摆拳
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: dorn, húc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: フック
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: кроше́
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кро̀ше̄
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: หมัดเหวี่ยงสั้น
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хук


 * Finnish:


 * Hungarian: felső kérdőjel


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: импа́с


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Tagalog: bungkalo


 * Dutch: stevenhaak


 * Albanian:
 * Basque: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Ido:
 * Latin:
 * Sardinian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Telugu:
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To attach a hook to.
 * 2)  To catch with a hook.
 * 3)  To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
 * 4)  To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
 * 5)  To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
 * 6)  To steal.
 * 7)  To connect (hook into, hook together).
 * 8)  To make addicted; to captivate.
 * 9)  To play a hook shot.
 * 10)  To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
 * 11)  To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
 * 12)  To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
 * 13)  To engage in prostitution.
 * 14)  To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
 * 15)  To finesse.
 * 16)  To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
 * 17)  To bend; to be curved.
 * 18)  To move or go with a sudden turn.
 * 1)  To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
 * 2)  To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
 * 3)  To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
 * 4)  To engage in prostitution.
 * 5)  To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
 * 6)  To finesse.
 * 7)  To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
 * 8)  To bend; to be curved.
 * 9)  To move or go with a sudden turn.
 * 1)  To finesse.
 * 2)  To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
 * 3)  To bend; to be curved.
 * 4)  To move or go with a sudden turn.
 * 1)  To move or go with a sudden turn.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: закачам с кука
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: zaháknout
 * Danish: hænge
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ripustaa koukkuun
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Malayalam:, കൊളുത്തിടുക
 * Ottoman Turkish: چنگللمك
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Czech: zaháknout
 * Danish: få på krogen, få til at bide på
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: saada koukkuun
 * French: “to iron a fish”
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian: 'amo
 * Korean:
 * Latin: adhāmō
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian: huke, kroke
 * Ottoman Turkish: قانجه‌لامق
 * Persian: به قلاب انداختن
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: glac
 * Spanish:
 * Tok Pisin: hukim
 * Ukrainian: упійма́ти, злови́ти


 * Finnish: laittaa koukkuun


 * Bulgarian: хващам в капан
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: koble
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Persian: به قلاب وصل کردن
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: поєдна́ти, з'єдна́ти


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ; jäädä koukkuun, olla koukussa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hekte
 * Nynorsk: hekte
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: lyödä hukki


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hindi:


 * Finnish: potkaista kierrepotku, potkaista banaanipotku
 * Norwegian:


 * Czech: hákovat
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian: правя импас


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:

Etymology

 * From, from , , from , from , from , ,.
 * The hyper-correction influenced by the cognate 🇨🇬.