hooker

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) One who, or that which, hooks.
 * 2) A small fishing boat.
 * 3)  Any antiquated craft.
 * 4)  A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
 * 5)  A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.
 * 6) A crocheter.
 * 7)  A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
 * 1)  A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
 * 2)  A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.
 * 3) A crocheter.
 * 4)  A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
 * 1) A crocheter.
 * 2)  A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
 * 1)  A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
 * 1)  A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hakker
 * Bulgarian: захващач
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: caiteoir
 * Italian: tallonatore
 * Maori: kaitīkape, kaikape
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: hooker,  talonador, talonadora
 * Welsh: bachwr

Etymology 2

 * The "prostitute" sense is the subject of a folk etymology connecting it to US Civil War general General Hooker, but the earliest known use dates to 1835, decades before the war. Less implausibly, it has also been connected to coastal features called in the ports of New York and Baltimore. Careful learned inference is not conclusive. See this essay, pp 105ff.

Noun

 * 1)  A prostitute.
 * 2)  An imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.
 * 1)  An imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:prostitute