hookn.1
/hʊk/, U.S. /hʊk/ 1. figurative.1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 9 When..assailed..with the temptation of pleasures..breaking in sunder those hookes.1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. vi. 564 The hooks and handles, which the ensnaring system of law, administered by them, afforded in such abundance.
a. A length of metal, or piece of wood or other material, bent back, or fashioned with a sharp angle, often forming a part of something, as a pole, chain, etc., adapted for catching hold, dragging, sustaining suspended objects, or the like. (Frequently with a qualification indicating shape or use, as boat hook n., chain-hook n., chimney-hook n., clip-hook n., fire hook n., flesh-hook n., gaff-hook n., hat-hook, meathook n., pot-hook n., tenterhook n., etc.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > hook
hookc900
haspedec1400
cleek1426
cleek-staffc1440
cramp1503
hock1530
gib-crook1564
cramp-iron1565
gib1567
cramper1598
bench hook1619
crampon1660
wall-hook1681
dressing hook1683
woodcock-eye1796
doghook1821
click1846
clipper1849
ice hook1853
witchetty1862
slip-hook1863
snap-hook1875
clip-hook1882
pelican1890
snake hook1944
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > hook
hookc900
crookc1290
rackhook1457
tenter1592
tenterhook1888
cup hook1895
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > hooked
awelOE
crookc1290
gaffa1300
kroket1426
crotchetc1430
cromec1440
buttonhook1788
claw1815
box hook1852
hook1869
window pole1888
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. ix. [xii.] 46 Þa..worhton him hocas, and mid þam tugan hi earmlice adun of þam wealle.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 107/9 Arpago, uel palum, hooc.
c1150 Semi-Sax. Voc. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. 548/21 Uncinus, hoc.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 195/57 Hokes and witthene he let nime: and faste to hire breoste binde.
c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 170 Cliket a cerure, lacche and hok.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 242/1 Hooke [v.r. hoke], hamus, uncus.
c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine 852 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 466 Quhelis..of þe quhilkis þe felyis all with scharpe houkis fichit be sall.
1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 49 Hokes to fish the Ankre with..leche hokes..catte hokes.
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 195 Hokes to hange the ketylles with a chayne of yron to the same.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 243 They had great hookes and grappelers of Iron to cast out of one Ship into another.
1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 158 There needs no more of Hooks and Crooks to make the Latter..to stick and hold together.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 20 The Avosetta is chiefly found in Italy,..the bill..turns up like a hook, in an opposite direction to that of the hawk or the parrot.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 69 (note) The ice-anchor is a large iron hook, nearly of the shape of the letter S.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour iii. 53 Sometimes, this axe has an edge on one side only, when on the other side it has either a hook or a hammer.
b. Zoology and Botany. A recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] > hooked part
tenter1616
tenterhook1665
hook1666
hooklet1836
the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > hooked hair or barb
tenter1616
tenterhook1665
barb1864
hook1866
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 84 His mouth is arm'd with two hard hooks extreamly sharp.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 376 All the joints of the tarsi are entire, and the hooks of the last present one or two indentations beneath.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xv. 254 Jaws armed with strong and penetrating hooks for seizing and securing active and struggling prey.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 415/2 The hooks of the Teazels come in contact with the surface of the cloth, and thus raise the nap.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 657 Chitinoid hooks are present in some Taeniadae.
c. In plural. slang. The fingers or hands. So to get one's hooks on (also into): to get hold of.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun]
fingerOE
talons1594
nimblesa1637
the ten stealers1655
Welsh comb1788
forks1819
hooks1829
fingerlet1836
bread hook1845
dactyl1889
grab-hook1946
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort
begeteOE
findOE
bewinc1175
getc1175
conquerc1230
reachc1275
procurec1325
makec1350
fishc1374
catchc1384
furneya1400
attainc1405
tillc1440
to pick out1577
to get a gripe ofa1586
secure1743
raise1838
to get one's hooks on (also into)1926
1829 W. Maginn tr. E. F. Vidocq et al. Mem. IV. 261 To his clies my hooks I throw in.
1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iv. 259 In a week or two a man can bring his hooks and feelers into full working trim again.
1917 E. Wallace Just Men of Cordova x. 169 Put your lamps over my shiners, run your hooks over me Astrakhan collar.
1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 122 Get one's hooks on, get hold of.
1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. xxvii. 230 About these volumes... I noticed a queer hesitancy on your part when I first got my hooks into them.
1954 J. Potts Go, Lovely Rose viii. 41 Maybe he's eloped with that fat Lang dame. She's been trying to get her hooks into him all winter.
d. A thief, a pickpocket. Cf. hook v. 6, hooker n.1 1. slang.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1863 Once a Week 9 555/1 The party who picks the pocket while the ‘stiff-dropper’ is attracting the victim's attention is called ‘the hook’.
1885 M. Davitt Leaves from Prison Diary I. xi. 106 Hooks, these individuals, who are also known as ‘gunns’ and ‘buzzers’, in prison slang, constitute the pickpocket class in its various specialities.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 4/1 The very same ‘hook’ was caught..a second time red-handed at another station.
1926 N. Lucas London & its Criminals xviii. 246 The ‘hook’ is the ‘whizzer’ who actually picks the pocket.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 57/2 Hook, the pickpocket who does the actual stealing.
1968 G. J. Barrett Guilty, be Damned! x. 116 We've nothing on him. But then we've nothing on half the hooks in Eastport.
2.
a. A slender bent piece of wire, usually armed with a barb, which is attached to a fishing-line and carries the bait; a fish-hook; an angle.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun]
angleeOE
hookc950
angle-hooka1382
fish-hooka1387
preen1469
angling hook1549
fishing-hook1725
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xvii. 27 Gae to sæ and sende ongul vel hoc.
c1000 in Cockayne Narrat. Angl. Conscr. 40 Ic eom..swa swa fisc on hoce.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 123 Alswa deð mahȝe fisce þe..ne isihȝ na þene hoc þe sticað on þan ese.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 752 Mani god fish ther inne he tok, Bothe with neth, and with hok.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 59 As the fysshe that takithe his bayte upon an hoke.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie H 573 The fishe renneth to the hooke hidden with the baite.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 37 No man will fish with a golden hooke for a halfe penny fish.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 5 The Engine wee took this great Shark with, was a large Hook, baited with a piece of Beef.
1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 20 Then fix, with gentle Twitch, the barbed Hook.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. I. 10 Birds we captured by hook and line, baited with fat meat.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xiii. 386 The angler might see fish rising but be unable to bring them to hook.
b. figurative. That by which any one is attracted or ensnared and caught; a snare; a catch. on the hook: (in various figurative uses, e.g.) ensnared, in the power (of someone); in one's grasp; attached to some occupation, habit, etc. Cf. off the hook at Phrases 2f.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun]
neteOE
angleOE
grinc1000
trapc1175
caltropa1300
lacec1330
girnc1375
espyc1380
webc1400
hook1430
settingc1430
lure1463
stall?a1500
stalea1529
toil1548
intrap1550
hose-net1554
gudgeon1577
mousetrap1577
trapfall1596
ensnarementa1617
decoy1655
cobweba1657
trepan1665
snap1844
deadfall1860
Judas1907
tanglefoot1908
catch-221963
trip-wire1971
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > enticement or deceit > one who or that which
Circec1405
hook1430
stalea1529
the mind > possession > [phrase] > in one's possession and control > in one's power or clutches
on the hook1641
society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > in power of some person or thing
on the hook1641
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > in the habit (of) > addicted to a habit or action
on the hook1932
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vi. i. 146 b Marius layd out hoke and lyne As I haue told, Metellus to confound.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) xiii. 2 Ffarewell, Love..Thy bayted hookes shall tangill me no more.
1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. C4v I am to seeke wherefore he suffered Parry to play so long..on the hooke before he hoysed him up.
1743 Visct. Bolingbroke Remarks Hist. Eng. xxiii. 293 This Solomon..catch'd at the Bait, which was thrown out to Him, and hung fast on the Hook for seven Years together.
1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Hook,..3..A catch; an advantage; an imposture.
1895 Daily News 2 Jan. 5/1 We often..have a perfectly visible hook offered to us, in a young lady, a speculation..or what not.
1927 H. Crane Let. 12 Aug. (1965) 304 I do hope that I can count on your assistance to the extent of the monthly amount until I can get something on my hook.
1932 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses xii. 233 Presently Angela was again on the hook in twenty score of composing-rooms.
1958 ‘J. Brogan’ Cummings Rep. xii. 126 She had made me wretchedly conscious of my shortcomings; that is how she had me on the hook.
1963 ‘D. Rutherford’ Creeping Flesh i. 72 ‘He really is on the hook.’ ‘The hook?’ ‘This drug habit.’
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard ii. 60 Poor bastard might as well have been fined today as kept on the hook.
3. A curved instrument with a cutting edge.† b. Nautical. In plural = shear-hook n. Obsolete.† c. An ‘inside’ tool. Obsolete.
a. An agricultural implement with a crescent-shaped blade and sharp inner edge for lopping or cutting, as a weed-hook; esp. a reaping-hook.Earliest attested in weed hook n.A hook used to be distinguished from a sickle by having the edge finely serrated.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > sickle
hooka700
sicklea1000
crookc1290
cycle1387
reap hook1388
reaping hook1578
knife-hooka1599
crotchet1833
a700 Epinal Gloss. 887 Sarculum, uueadhoc.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 42 He sende hem þider [to the vineyard] fol son to helpen hem wiþ hoc.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xv. 356 Iulius is paynted with an hoke repynge corne.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 242/1 Hooke to hewe wode,..sirculus.
c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 94 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 307 Gyf he in sic corne cuth set huke.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iv. 67 The crukit huik vndir his weid held he.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xviv Pees and beanes be..reped or mowen of dyuers maners, some with sickels, some with hokes, and some with staffe hokes.
1643 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1814) VI. i. 251 2000 hwickis and 100 sythes for sheiring and mawing.
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July v. 42 Here [i.e. at Sandwich] they cut their drilled Field-pease with what they call Hook and Hincks.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 610 The reaping and bagging hooks are made of cast-steel.
1889 Daily News 8 Aug. 5/1 The old saying applied to the bad harvestman, ‘A bad shearer never had a good hook’.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > hooks for cutting rigging
hookc1385
shearing-hookc1385
shear-hook1410
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Cleopatra. 641 Among the ropis rennyth the scherynge hokys.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 646 He rent the seyl with hokys lyk a sithe.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 58 Some haue vsed sheare hookes, which are hookes like sickels fixed in the ends of the yards armes, that if a ship vnder saile come to boord her, those sheares will cut her shrouds, and spoile her tackling.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > specific tools
hook1680
rough grinder1777
side tool1804
bottom tool1819
broad1846
sweep1847
wobbler1875
knurl1879
cam-cuttera1884
fly-cutter1884
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xi. 194 The Hook is used when the Work stands on the right or left side the Workman... And the Hook is made so as to cut on the right or left side.
4.
a. The crook or pin on which a door or gate is hung; forming the fixed part of the hinge.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hinge > parts of hinge > pin
hookc1325
hinge-pin1881
c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 170 Gouns, hokes. Verteveles, the bondes of hokes.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 603 Of almes dedes ar þe hokes þat þe gates hangen on.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vii. 50 The hokes of ye dores on the insyde of the house..were of golde.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 147 b He doth not heave the doores of the hookes.
1624 in G. Ornsby Select. from Househ. Bks. Naworth Castle (1878) 215 A hooke and thimble for the parke gate.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 126 They contented themselves with throwing gates off the hooks.
b. A hook upon which (in early models) the telephone receiver rested.The expression is still used when the reference is to the cradle upon which a telephone rests.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > parts of telephone
induction coil1837
ferrotype1857
telephone receiver1875
mouthpiece1877
receiver1877
microphone1878
telephone trumpet1879
magneto bell1882
magneto call bella1884
rest1883
hook1885
receptor1898
telephone dial1898
ringer1899
dial1900
Button A (or B)1922
switch hook1922
phone bell1924
hybrid coil1925
cradle1929
dial wheel1938
hybrid transformer1941
scriber1968
fascia1973
1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) p. iii When your bell rings..take the Telephone off the hook... Unless the telephone is on the hook, the Subscriber cannot call or be called by the Exchange.
1921 Conquest Jan. 126/3 On removing the receiver from the hook, the subscriber's line is connected to a selector.
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. v. 508 Otto hung the receiver back on its hook.
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 262 Another phone crossed Sneed's mind, the one in his own flat with its receiver off the hook.
5. A bent metal appliance for fastening together two parts of a dress, on one of which it is fixed so as to catch in a loop or an ‘eye’ on the other. See also hook and eye n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > hook(s) and eye(s) > hook
hook1530
clasp1568
haspa1685
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231/2 Hoke for a womans gowne, agraffe.
1573 W. Smith 12 Jests Wyddow Edyth xii. sig. Givv This wydow borowed..A Cap: an Hat, and three kerchieues therto A cople of syluer pinnes, a payr of Hokes & no mo.
a1658 J. Cleveland Poor Cavalier in Wks. (1687) 328 Thy Hooks and Buttons sprung with Sherburns Mine.
1895 Advt. The only hook made to keep the dress in its place.
1896 Edith Thompson in Monthly Packet Christm. No. 91 She..wrenched open the fastenings of her black dress, breaking two hooks and a loop.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > crook
sheep-crookc1420
crookc1430
staffc1475
hook?1523
sheep-hook?1523
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiv Lette the shepeherde take that shepe with his hoke.
a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover iii. i. 32 in 3 New Playes (1655) My scrip, my tar-box, hook and coat will prove But a thin purchase.
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 89 in Poems Some drive the crowding sheep with rural hooks.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 15 From Rivers drive the Kids, and sling your Hook.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [noun] > head of arrow > barbed head
angle-head1488
hook1488
swallowtail1545
flukea1600
fork1608
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > fluke
fluke1561
grasp1561
hook1627
fluec1860
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 553 Ane angell hede to the hukis he drew And at a schoyt the formast sone he slew.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxviii. 57 Eviry shaft thairof must needs To haif als mony heeds, And euirie head als mony huikis.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ii. 753 The anchors made No noise, when from thicke sands their hookes are weigh'd.
8. Shipbuilding. A bent piece of timber used to strengthen an angular framework. Cf. breast hook n., fore-hooks n., and futtock n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > angular supporting timber
knee1337
hook1611
standardc1620
carling-knee1626
standing knee1726
dagger-knee1850
hanging knee1850
beam-knee1869
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > other timbers supporting stem
breast hook1312
hook1611
breast knee1874
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Four,..a great peece of timber in the prowe of a Ship, called the Hooke.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 3 Your rising timbers are the hookes, or ground timbers and foot-hookes placed on the keele.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Hooks of a Ship, those forked Timbers which are placed upright on the Keel, both in the rake and run of the Ship.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 191 The fore part of the ice-beams, which butt against the hook,..diverge.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 124 Hook of the Decks. See Breast-hooks.
9. A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of anything; esp. a bend in a river (now in proper names). [Perhaps in some cases influenced by Dutch hoek corner, nook.]
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > hook-shaped > a hook-shaped thing or part
hook1563
falcation1646
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 544/1 Ye very straight way yt hath nother hoke ne croke.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §15 In order to the making of such hooks and angles, which are necessary for the contexture of bodyes.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 67 For the Bay lies up in a little hook North-west.
1749 W. Douglass Summary I. 402 Cape Cod harbour, safe, and deep water; but from the hook or flexure..vessels with difficulty get out to sea.
1863 N.E. Hist. & Gen. Reg. XVII. 321 He was often at Hallowell Hook; so called from a peculiar bend in the river.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Hook, a bend in a river. Thus in the Trent are—Morton Hook, Amcotts Hook, etc.
10. † b. plural. Brackets (in printing), parentheses: formerly also called crotchets and crooks; (also) inverted commas. Obsolete.
a. A hook-shaped symbol or character; a ‘pot-hook’ as an element of handwriting.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [noun] > stroke
linea1382
tittlec1384
stroke1567
minim1587
pot-hook1611
dash1615
hair-stroke1634
hook1668
foot stroke1676
stem1676
duct1699
hanger1738
downstroke?1760
hairline1846
up-stroke1848
skit1860
pot-crook1882
ligature1883
coupling-stroke1906
bow1914
ductus1922
ascender1934
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 377 The first Rank doth contain the Characters for the six more simple Vowels..the former three being meer Rounds, the other Hooks.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 388 Abstracts may be expressed by a Hook at the left end of the Character... The Active and Passive voice may be expressed, one of them by a Hook, and the other by a Loop, at the left end of the Character.
1867 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. (ed. 12) 30 Initial l or r hooks.
1867 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. (ed. 12) 33 n hook..f or v hook.
1867 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. (ed. 12) 34 -tion hook.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > brackets
parenthesis1582
squadron1618
parathesis1633
brace1656
hooks1680
bracket1750
circumflex1801
round bracket1847
curve1851
angle bracket1890
square bracket1891
paren1905
angled bracket1954
semi-quadratures-
1680 G. Hickes Spirit of Popery Pref. 5 He hath left out all betwixt the Hooks.
1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 10 Feb. (O.H.S.) I. 325 Words..in hooks are his own.
1732 Bentley Pref. Milton's P.L. Printing them in the Italic letter, and inclosing them between two hooks.
1788 F. Burney Diary Feb. (1842) IV. 122 As if he had pronounced a sentence in a parenthesis, between hooks.
1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) I. 64 What is within hooks is of my own composing.
c. Music. One of the lines or marks at the end of the stem of a quaver (♪), semiquaver (?), etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > character in notation > note > part of note
tailc1325
head1724
hook1782
stem1806
pennant1890
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 303 [Called] Crotchets: a name given by the French with more propriety from the hook or curvature of the tail, to the..Quaver.
1880 W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Music I. 476/2 The Semiquaver was..subdivided into Demisemiquavers, with three Hooks, and Half-Demisemiquavers, with four.
d. Logic. colloquial. A name for the sign ⊃, used as the implication sign (cf. horseshoe n. 2f). Also, more commonly: a reading of the sign: thus ‘p ⊃ q’ is read ‘p, hook, q’.In colloquial use among logicians since 1955 or earlier.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > mathematical or symbolic logic > Polish school of symbolic logic > symbols
parenthesis1880
incomplete symbol1910
stroke1925
horseshoe1926
Sheffer('s) stroke1932
hook1967
tilde1979
1967 R. Neidorf Deductive Forms 65 ‘If…then’..will be symbolized by a hook, ⊃.
1971 G. Hunter Metalogic 54 We shall call the tilde and the hook the connectives of P.
11. A projecting corner, point, or spit of land. [Apparently < Dutch hoek, as in Hoek van Holland Hook of Holland; compare also Frisian hôk, point or tongue of land.]
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun] > spit
pinnaclec1330
hook1600
languet1610
spit1673
pier1768
1600 R. Hakluyt tr. N. da Silva in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 743 A hooke or headland.
1832 E. C. Wines Two Years in Navy i We were kept off the hook, waiting either for wind or tide.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic Hist. Introd. v. 24 This narrow hook of land, destined, in future ages, to be the cradle of a considerable empire.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Hook..This name is given, in New York, to several angular points in the North and East Rivers; as, Corlear's Hook, Powle's Hook, Sandy Hook.
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iv. 663 The course of the outflowing currents..determines the position of the channels and sand-bars, and causes the prolongation of hooks off prominent capes.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person
unhappy hooka1529
drooper1577
disconsolate1631
desponder1689
mope1693
moper1721
despondent1812
misery1888
crape-hanger1921
Dismal Desmond1926
Dismal Jimmy1927
crêpe-hanger1930
Eeyore1932
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiiiv All hokes unhappy to me haue resorte.
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xvii Why hast thou..thou vnhappy hooke No conscience to be a periurde wretche?
1562 Jack Jugler (1820) 26 Loo yender cumithe that vnhappye hooke.
13.
a. Cricket. The act of hooking: see hook v. 8c.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke
long ball1744
nip1752
catch1816
no-hit1827
cut1833
short hit1833
draw1836
drive1836
square hit1837
skylarker1839
skyer1840
skyscraper1842
back-cut1845
bum1845
leg sweep1846
slog1846
square cut1850
driver1851
Harrow drive1851
leg slip1852
poke1853
snick1857
snorter1859
leg stroke1860
smite1861
on-drive1862
bump ball1864
rocketer1864
pull1865
grass trimmer1867
late cut1867
off-drive1867
spoon1871
push1873
push stroke1873
smack1875
Harrow drive1877
pull-stroke1880
leg glance1883
gallery-hit1884
boundary-stroke1887
glide1888
sweep1888
boundary1896
hook1896
leg glide1896
backstroke1897
flick1897
hook stroke1897
cover-drive1898
straight drive1898
square drive1900
edger1905
pull-drive1905
slash1906
placing stroke1907
push drive1912
block shot1915
if-shot1920
placing shot1921
cow-shot1922
mow1925
Chinese cut1937
haymaker1954
hoick1954
perhapser1954
air shot1956
steepler1959
mishook1961
swish1963
chop-
1896 Badminton Mag. Sept. 278 Leg-hitting..has found a goodly representative in the ‘hook’, as invented by E. M. Grace.
1897 Lang in Longman's Mag. Oct. 503 Playing on the leg in all its variety of ‘glances’..varied by the ‘pull’ and ‘hook’ to the undefended area of the ground.
1904 F. C. Holland Cricket 26 Short-pitched balls are best disposed of by a hook.
1948 E. W. Swanton Denis Compton i. 14 The hook (that is the leg~side hit off the back foot) is another and more orthodox favourite.
1972 Observer 23 Apr. 24/8 Two regal hooks by Cowdrey were matched in the next over by two lordly cover-drives from Dexter.
b. Boxing. A short swinging blow with the elbow bent. Also transferred.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > actions or positions
first bloodc1540
guard1601
feint1684
in holds1713
shifting1793
rally1805
muzzler1811
one-two1811
stop1812
southpaw1813
fibbing1814
leveller1814
mouther1814
ribber1814
stomacher1814
teller1814
in-fighting1816
muzzling1819
weaving1821
out-fighting1831
arm guard1832
countering1858
counter1861
clinching1863
prop1869
clinch1875
right and left1887
hook-hit1890
hook1898
cross1906
lead1906
jolt1908
swing1910
body shot1918
head shot1927
bolo punch1950
snap-back1950
counterpunch1957
counterpunching1957
Ali shuffle1966
rope-a-dope1975
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the hand > with the fist > with elbow bent
hook1898
1898 Daily News 9 Nov. 8/5 After Smith had put a left hook on the chin the issue was not in doubt.
1910 J. Driscoll Ringcraft 94 It only needs practice to convince anyone that the straight blow will always get there before the swing or the hook.
1929 Evening News 18 Nov. 16/4 With a couple of left hooks to the head.
1945 Diamond Track (Army Board, N.Z.) 7/1 The Division carried out the outflanking movements, the celebrated ‘left hooks’ which forced the enemy out of the two great strongholds.
1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze x. 251 Some of the Mediterranean landing-craft had already been promised to India, to help the British mount amphibious hooks down the coast of Arakan.
1971 Daily Express 17 Feb. 14/7 Salah..was pinned and punished by Clark's jabs and hooks.
c. Golf. The act of hooking.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of play
putting1690
short game1858
approach1879
iron play1879
pitch1889
duffing1890
hook1890
loft1890
lofting1895
slicing1899
bunkering1909
socketing1911
shanking1924
foozling1927
Stableford1937
shotmaking1969
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of shot or stroke
putta1754
like1790
drive1829
tee-shot1850
gobble1857
push shot1865
iron shot1870
push stroke1873
drive-off1884
slice1886
raker1888
foozle1890
hook1890
iron1890
top1890
sclaff1893
brassy shot1894
run1894
chip shot1899
chip1903
pull1903
skimmer1903
draw shot1904
brassy1906
pitch-and-run1908
windcheater1909
air shot1920
chip-in1921
explosion1924
downhiller1925
blast1927
driver1927
shank1927
socket1927
recovery1937
whiff1952
pinsplitter1961
comebacker1965
bump-and-run1981
1890 W. Simpson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 204 Press ever so little when your club is turned in and yourself over-reached, and the hook is certain.
Phrases
P1. by hook or (also and) by crook, †with hook or crook.: by all or any means, fair or foul; by one device or another. Usually implying difficulty in attaining the thing sought, which may necessitate the use of special or extraordinary means.As to the origin of the phrase there is no evidence; although invention has been prolific of explanatory stories, most of them at variance with chronology. The Wycliffite quots. are of somewhat doubtful date, and may be later than that from Gower, which has hepe n. for ‘hook’.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > by any means
by hook or (also and) by crookc1380
in any casea1398
by some manner of means1580
at any rate1601
per fas et nefas1602
somehow or another1664
somehow or other1664
at all rates1667
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 250 Þei schulle bie hem wiþ pore mennus goodis wiþ hook or wiþ crok.
c1383 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 331 Þei sillen sacramentis..and compellen men to bie alle þis wiþ hok or crok.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 223 What with hepe and what with croke They [false Witness and Perjury] make her maister ofte winne.]
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.vv Nor wyll suffre this boke By hoke ne by croke Prynted for to be.
1541 Schole House of Women sig. Dv So at length, by howche or by crowche, Lesse or more, euer they craue, Untyll the hande, be in thy pouche.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Cviiv By one meanes therfore or by other, other by howke or crooke they must nedes departe awaye.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 179 Some..care not how they come by it, per fas & nefas, hooke or crooke, so they haue it.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 116 Title enough for a great man that resolved to hold by hooke, what he had got by crooke.
a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) ii. 35 If you could put us in a way, by hook or by crook, to get her out of the convent.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 186 If you can't gain it by hook, you must by crook.
1842 ‘G. Eliot’ in Life (1885) I. 112 Do come by hook or by crook.
P2. off the hooks. Cf. off the hinges at hinge n. Phrases.† a. Out of proper condition; out of order; ‘in a bad way’.† b. Out of ordinary bounds, to excess.† c. Out of humour or spirits, ‘put out’; ‘not quite right’. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased
untrumc825
sickc888
unwholec888
slackc897
unstronga900
sicklea1000
sam-halea1023
worseOE
attaint1303
languishinga1325
heallessc1374
sicklyc1374
sicklewa1387
bada1393
mishalea1400
languoring?c1425
distempered1440
unwell?c1450
detent?a1475
poora1475
languorousc1475
maladif1481
illa1500
maladiousc1500
wanthriven1508
attainted1509
unsound1513
acrazed1521
cracked1527
unsoundya1529
visited1537
infirmed1552
crazed1555
healthless1568
ill-liking1572
afflicted1574
crazy1576
unhealthful1580
sickish1581
valetudinary1581
not well1587
fainty1590
ill-disposed1596
unhealthsome1598
tainted1600
ill-affected1604
peaking1611
unhealthy1611
infirmited1616
disaffected1626
physical1633
illish1637
pimping1640
invalid1642
misaffected1645
valetudinarious1648
unhale1653
badly1654
unwholesome1655
valetudinous1655
morbulent1656
off the hooksa1658
mawkish1668
morbid1668
unthriven1680
unsane1690
ailing1716
not wellish1737
underlya1742
poorly1750
indifferent1753
comical1755
maladized1790
sober1808
sickened1815
broken-down1816
peaky1821
poorlyish1827
souffrante1827
run-down1831
sicklied1835
addle1844
shaky1844
mean1845
dauncy1846
stricken1846
peakyish1853
po'ly1860
pindling1861
rough1882
rocky1883
suffering1885
wabbit1895
icky-boo1920
like death warmed up1924
icky1938
ropy1945
crappy1956
hanging1971
sick as a parrot1982
shite1987
a1658 J. Cleveland Petitionary Poem in Wks. (1687) 326 My Doublet looks Like him that wears it, quite off o' the Hooks.
a1674 in C. Mackay Coll. Songs London Prentices (1841) 64 In all this long season they were off o' th' hook.
1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 240 But the application is, methinks, much off the Hooks.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > with lack of moderation [phrase]
with unskillc1220
off the hooks1612
1612 North's Plutarch 1214 Agrippina began..to flye off the hookes: and coming to Nero himself, threatned to take his Empire from him.
1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iii. vi. 167 In time of prosperitie proudly flie off the hookes.
1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle i. 7 My Brothers a little off oth' Hooks; but..'Tis only the over-flows of Wit.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] > in an ill humour
maltalenta1578
in a jeer1579
in suds1611
sullen-sick1614
in the pouts1615
out of sorts1621
cross1639
off the hooks1662
huff1714
sulkinga1777
as cross as a bear1838
sore-headed1844
sore-head1862
baity1921
1662 S. Pepys Diary 28 Apr. (1970) III. 73 One thing that hath put Sir Wm so long off of the hookes.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 26 May (1972) VI. 109 The Duke of Albemarle..mightily off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the River.
1779 Duchess of Devonshire Sylph II. 98 The Baronet is cursedly off the hooks, from the idea of its transpiring.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. iv. 96 Everybody..is a little off the hooks..in plain words, a little crazy, or so.
d. Straight off, at once, summarily.
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the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
anonc1175
forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
skeetc1175
swithc1175
with and withc1175
anon-rightc1225
anon-rights?c1225
belivec1225
lightly?c1225
quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
hastilyc1275
i-radlichec1275
as soon asc1290
aright1297
bedenea1300
in little wevea1300
withoute(n dwella1300
alrightc1300
as fast (as)c1300
at firstc1300
in placec1300
in the placec1300
mididonec1300
outrightc1300
prestc1300
streck13..
titec1300
without delayc1300
that stounds1303
rada1325
readya1325
apacec1325
albedenec1330
as (also also) titec1330
as blivec1330
as line rightc1330
as straight as linec1330
in anec1330
in presentc1330
newlyc1330
suddenlyc1330
titelyc1330
yernec1330
as soon1340
prestly1340
streckly1340
swithly?1370
evenlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
in the twinkling of a looka1393
derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
out of handc1400
wightc1400
at a startc1405
immediately1420
incontinent1425
there and then1428
onenec1429
forwithc1430
downright?a1439
agatec1440
at a tricec1440
right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
straightway1526
at a twitch1528
at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
at once1531
belively1532
straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond III. xv. 285 Baronets with twelve thousand a year cannot be married off the hooks.
e. to drop (etc.) off the hooks: to die. slang.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox xii. 95 No man was ever able to write his own life complete. He's certain to go off the hooks before he has finished it.
1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 29 Our friend..has popp'd off the hooks!
1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. iii. 19 If he fatigues himself so much as that often, he'll soon be off the hooks.
1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew iii He..was not far from eighty when he slipped off the hooks without an ache or pain.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. xi. 247 Is it true that old Fox is dropping off the hooks?
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 9 Old Timothy; he might go off the hooks at any moment. I suppose he's made his Will.
f. off the hook: out of a difficult situation. Cf. on the hook at sense 2b.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] > free from difficulty or trouble
out of the wood1792
off the hook1864
in the clear1930
1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington in Cornhill Mag. Apr. 450 ‘Poor Caudle!’ he said to himself; ‘he's hooked, and he'll never get himself off the hook again.’
1954 J. Potts Go, Lovely Rose xii. 77 ‘It's an idea,’ said Dr. Craig... It would get Hartley off the hook, sure enough.
1962 M. Urquhart Frail on North Circular xxv. 140 Let Broadbent think he's off the hook and then give it another twist.
1966 New Yorker 25 June 49 Then he smiled, and I knew I was off the hook.
1969 ‘A. Glyn’ Dragon Variation vii. 199 You mean she lost the kid? Well! Well, that sure lets old Walter off the hook!
g. to go off the hooks: to get married. So to be lifted off the hook. local.
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1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter x Some of the young chaps will be wanting her to get married. These here pretty ones go off the hooks so soon.
1889 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings 3rd Ser. 9 She had never been, up till date, lifted off the hook... The offers she had refused in her day were many.
P3.
a. on one's own hook: in dependence on oneself or one's own efforts; on one's own account; at one's own risk. colloquial.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] > acting alone
apartc1400
merelyc1487
singly1609
unto oneself1643
on one's own hook1812
single-handedly1882
on one's own1895
single-o1948
1812 Boston Gaz. 23 Nov. They forget that Rodgers himself says that he went upon his own hook.
1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 13 But now I start anew upon my own hook.
1845 N.Y. Herald Oct. The time is fast approaching when we shall have our American Pope..and American Catholic every thing, on our own hook.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxi. 309 Do we come out as Liberal Conservative, or as Government man, or on our own hook?
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiv. 219 ‘I'm a thinkin, that every man'll have to hang on his own hook, in them ar quarters.’
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 33 I thought to-day I would go on my own hook, and see if I couldn't make a better hand of it.
1899 J. London Let. 30 Mar. (1966) 26 When I was just sixteen I broke loose and went off on my own hook.
1927 E. W. Springs Nocturne Militaire vi. 178 You know a man has to be crazy to go after a balloon on his own hook.
1940 M. Lowry Let. in Sel. Lett. (1967) 21 They objected to my going east on my own hook..because they would not trust me.
1952 F. Yerby Woman called Fancy xvi. 307 I'm not going out of this house with you on my own hook.
b. to sling (also take) one's hook: to go away, be off, decamp. slang or dialect.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 295 Sling your hook, a polite invitation to move-on.
1885 O. Allan Sinbad the Sailor 22 I ‘took the office’ and I took my hook.
1886 M. Peacock Tales & Rhymes Lindsey Folk-speech 106 An' soa he teks his hook back agaain to steam-hoose yard.
1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 34 Before you sling your 'ook, at the 'ousetops take a look.
1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs 130 Take your 'ook while you can.
1897 Daily News 1 Sept. 2/2 If you don't sling yer hook this minute, here goes a pewter pot at yer head.
1928 Daily Express 10 May 7 Magistrate: How is your husband cruel to you? Wife: He will not speak to me, and he tells me to sling my hook.
1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxii. 193 Anyhow, she's gone, walked out, slung her hook.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 193 Expressions inviting a person's departure, for instance:..sling your hook, split the breeze, [etc.].
P4. hook, line, and sinker: completely, without reservations.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > in full or to fullest extent > fully or without exceptions or qualifications
quite and cleana1175
for odd or evenc1425
the fullness of timec1425
in toto1798
sans phrase1808
hook, line, and sinker1838
1838 G. W. Patterson in T. W. Barnes Mem. T. Weed (1884) v. 60 We are gone, hook, line, and sinker.
1865 Weekly New Mexican 25 Aug. 1/3 Without him Chavez [sc. a candidate for Congress] is gone hook, line, and sinker.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror ii. 59 The old man swallowed those references of yours, hook, line and sinker.
1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 58 I fell for it hook, line and sinker.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 38 You, my dear Charles,..have gone straight, hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University.
Compounds
C1.
a. attributive or adj. Shaped like or resembling a hook, hook-like, hooked. hook-bill n.; hook-nose n.; hook-nosed adj.
(a)
hook-head n.
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1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade Hook-pins, in architecture, are taper iron pins, only with a hook-head, to pin the frame of a roof or floor together.
hook-nail n.
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1519 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 5 For sises pynnes and hoke naylles.
hook-shoulder n.
hook-tool n.
(b) Furnished with a hook.
hook block n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hook-block, a pulley-block strapped with a hook, in contradistinction to one with an eye or a tail.
hook bolt n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > bolt > types of
round bolt1582
ringbolt1599
pikebolt1622
rag bolt1625
set-bolt1627
clinch-bolta1642
eyebolt1649
clinch1659
screw-bolt1690
king bolt1740
wrain-bolt1750
wraining-bolt1769
toggle-bolt1794
strap-bolt1795
wring-bolt1815
through-bolt1821
truss-bolt1825
slip-stopper1831
stud bolt1838
anchor bolt1839
king rod1843
joint bolt1844
spade-bolt1850
shackle-bolt1852
roof bolt1853
set-stud1855
coach bolt1869
truss-rod1873
fox-bolt1874
garnish-bolt1874
fang-bolt1876
stud1878
U bolta1884
rock bolt1887
hook bolt1899
tower bolt1911
explosive bolt1948
1899 N.E.D. at Hook Hook bolt.
1923 Man. Seamanship (H.M.S.O.) II. 300 It will be necessary [during salvage operations] to drill a few extra holes for hook bolts which will be used to secure the patch temporarily to the ship's side... The hook bolts are shipped in the holes ready for use.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 421/2 Hook bolt, a galvanised-iron bolt formed out of rod which is bent at one end into a hook serving as the head, and threaded at the other to take a nut; used for fixing corrugated sheeting.
1956 Archit. Rev. 119 213/1 For fixing to metal purlins, a standard range of hook-bolts and U-bolts is available.
hook rope n.
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1495–7 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 271 Hoke ropes for fyssyng of ankers.
1801 Ld. Nelson 15 Aug. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 460 To be furnished with stout hook-ropes, to be the more ready to take them in tow.
hook tackle n.
(c) Parasynthetic. † hook-nebbed adj. Obsolete
hook-backed adj.
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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hook-backed, hump-backed, crooked.
hook-beaked adj.
hook-handed adj.
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a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods in Wks. (1640) III. 199 Hook-handed Harpies.
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?a1400 Morte Arth. 1082 Huke~nebbyde as a hawke.
hook-shouldered adj.
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a1678 A. Marvell Billborow Hill in Misc. Poems (1681) 73 Ye Mountains..That do with your hook-shoulder'd height The Earth deform and Heaven fright.
b. Objective and objective genitive.
hook-bearer n.
hook-bender n.
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1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 363 Various Tools for manufacturing Fishing Tackle and Gear, such as Hook-benders [etc.].
c. Similative.
hook-crooked adj.
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1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 137 With hook-crookt hands vpon the smoothest crawling.
hook-shaped adj.
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1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 317 Hook-shaped prickles.
hook-winged adj.
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1905 Spectator 7 Jan. 12/1 Every autumn the great coffee-coloured, hook-winged skua-gulls come down from the North and patrol the midway air.
1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. vi. 27 A vulture hung in air..His hook-winged shadow wavered.
1968 T. Kinsella Nightwalker 17 Hook-winged geese or hawks.
d. Instrumental and locative.
hook-armed adj.
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1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) i. 456 The Belgæ hooke-arm'd Chariots expert-guiders.
hook-fishing n.
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1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. June x. 67 Those poor People..may have the single Engines for Hook-fishing fixed within their Houses.
1841 J. Johnson tr. Van der Donck New-Netherlands in N.Y. Hist. Soc. Coll. 2nd Ser. I. 177 Those the people call weak crabs, and they make excellent bait for hook fishing.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 926/1 Hook-fishing is within 3 fathoms, either in the river or in open sea.
hook-swinging n.
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1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Nov. 2/2 The horrible ceremony of ‘hook-swinging’,..the swinging aloft at the end of a long pole, for over an hour, of a man by means of two iron hooks embedded in the muscles of his back.
1894 Daily News 15 Nov. 5/3 The Government of Madras has passed orders giving Magistrates power to prevent..hook-swinging in the Southern Presidency.
C2. Special combinations: † hook-land n. Obsolete land ploughed and sown every year.† hookman n. Obsolete a manufacturer of fish-hooks. † hook-ware n. Obsolete tools used in reaping.
hook and butt n.
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1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 202 They are wrought of parallel breadths, with hook and butt scarphs, about four feet long, between the drifts.
hook-and-ladder n. U.S. apparatus consisting of ladders and hooks used by firemen; often attributive.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > combination hook and ladder
hook-and-ladder1821
1821 Minutes Boston (Mass.) Selectmen XXXIX. 187 Mr. George G. Channing..declines taking command of the Fire Hook & Ladder company.
1865 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 July 469/2 18 hook-and-ladder trucks.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 11 June 8/1 Other Americans pointed with pride to their hook-and-ladder system, which forms such an important aid to the New York fireman.
1909 Strand Mag. Apr. 363 There stood the engines and the ‘hook-and-ladder’.
1949 Los Angeles Times 18 May 8/1 The Fire Department obligingly backed up a hook-and-ladder truck.
hook-book n. a book with flannel or parchment leaves in which anglers keep their hooks.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] > book for keeping hooks
hook-book1859
1859 G. A. Sala Gaslight & Daylight x. 118 The parchment hook-books of the gentlemen fishermen.
hook-butt n. ‘a mode of scarfing timber so that the parts resist tensile strain to part them’ (Knight).
hook-climber n. a plant that climbs by means of its own hooklets, as members of the genera Galium and Rubus.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [noun] > creeping, climbing, or spiring > creeping or climbing plant > types of
root climber1865
hook-climber1897
mile-a-minute1956
1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants I. 177 In the tropics many hook-climbers grow to a great size and have stem- or leaf-structures modified into hooks.
hook gauge n. an instrument for accurately determining the surface level of water and consisting of a hook and pointer attached to a fixed vernier, the hook being brought up until its tip just pierces the surface of the water.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring depth > of any water
sounding-board1776
hook gauge1875
1875 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 99 250 The depth on the weir was observed by means of a hook-gauge.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 477/2 The hook gauge used first by Mr. U. Boyden of Boston, in 1840.
1934 H. Addison Text Bk. Appl. Hydraulics xv. 304 Hook and point gauges. These are the simplest and most reliable gauges for measuring ranges of head not exceeding about 3 ft. (60 cms.) with a probable error of 1/1500 ft. (0·2 mm.).
hook-heal n. (a name for) Self-heal, Prunella vulgaris.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts > self-heal
self-heallOE
brunel1527
prunella1527
carpenter's herb1578
hook-heal1578
prunel1578
sicklewort1597
prince's feather1818
hook-weed1861
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xx. 133 The second kinde is also called..in English Prunell..Hooke heale.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cut Take some Prunel or Hook-heal.
hook-hit n. Boxing = sense 13b above.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > actions or positions
first bloodc1540
guard1601
feint1684
in holds1713
shifting1793
rally1805
muzzler1811
one-two1811
stop1812
southpaw1813
fibbing1814
leveller1814
mouther1814
ribber1814
stomacher1814
teller1814
in-fighting1816
muzzling1819
weaving1821
out-fighting1831
arm guard1832
countering1858
counter1861
clinching1863
prop1869
clinch1875
right and left1887
hook-hit1890
hook1898
cross1906
lead1906
jolt1908
swing1910
body shot1918
head shot1927
bolo punch1950
snap-back1950
counterpunch1957
counterpunching1957
Ali shuffle1966
rope-a-dope1975
1890 R. G. A. Allanson-Winn Boxing (ed. 2) ix. 43 There is another half-arm hit, called the ‘hook-hit’, in which the elbow is not so much bent as it is with the real ‘contracted-arm’.
1919 G. B. Shaw in Manch. Guardian 1 Nov. 7/6 He missed that chance of a hook hit at the white chokers.
hook-ladder n. a ladder with hooks at one end by which it can be suspended.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > ladder > [noun] > other ladders
rope ladder1658
tackling-ladder1680
Indian ladder1715
peg ladder1854
hook-ladder1858
cat-ladder1883
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Hook-ladder.
1902 Daily Chron. 12 June 9/3 The hook ladder fastening to the windows on each floor is now in almost universal use on the Continent and in America.
1972 Times 20 Sept. 3/3 Window cleaners..made their final assault on the upper storeys by jumping out of windows..by lowering a hook ladder from the summit.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > land cropped every year
hook-land1669
ope-land1673
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 56 That Land which is so often tilled, which they call Hook-land.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hook-land, or Ope-land.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > hook > [noun] > one who makes hooks
hookman1658
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 946 We have some bold bragging hookmen..that ascribe it to their own invention.
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hook-money n. a currency formerly in vogue in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), consisting of pieces of silver twisted into the form of fish-hooks.
hook-motion n. (in a steam engine) a valve gear reversed by V hooks.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hook-motion (Steam-engine), a valve-gear having hooks for actuating and reversing.
hook needle n. (see quot. 1884).
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Hook Needle (Hydraulic Engineering), a hook-ended needle used in sewing mats for lining river banks or making levees. It is used in making the lock-stitch and also in the hook needle fastening.
hook-net n. a fishing-net with an L-shaped continuation.
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Hook Net (Fishing), one with an L-shaped continuation forming a sort of pocket.
hook-penny n. Scottish a penny received by reapers every week in addition to the ordinary wages.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > payment for other specific work
wensevesc1250
spade-silver1606
watch money1628
wonting pennya1642
box money1707
hook-penny1794
bobbin1936
1794 Har'st Rig cxxi. 37 (note) ‘Hook-penny’, which each shearer is in use to ask and receive weekly over and above their pay.
hook-pin n. a taper iron pin with a hooked head to pin the frame of a roof or floor together; a draw-pin.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > for fastening frame of roof or floor
hook-pin1637
1637–8 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 94 Ashpoles for levers and hookepinnes.
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 125 The Hook-Pin is..to pin the Frame of a Floor or Frame of a Roof together, while it is framing.
hook plate n. a casting for attachment to a wall, having hooks on which radiator pipes may rest.
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Hook Plate, a supporter for Radiators.
hook-pot n. (see quot. 1867).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun]
pot?c1225
flesh-kit1575
plasma1616
vessel1719
pot-au-feu1792
cookpot1835
cooker1849
hook-pot1867
canaree1895
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 388 Hook-pots, tin cans fitted to hang on the bars of the galley range.
1886 R. Brown Spunyarn & Spindrift v. 66 A hook-pot of tea a-piece.
1896 Idler Mar. 173/1 There you'd see them crowding about the doors at meal-times, flourishing their hook-pots.
1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields 33 Tin dishes, sailors' hookpots.
hook rug n. = hooked rug at hooked adj. Compounds.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > rug > types of, generally
shag1634
hearthrug1790
buffalo-robe1804
hooked rug1880
area rug1941
hook rug1951
1951 T. Capote Grass Harp (1952) i. 12 There was a hook rug on the floor.
1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 83 The canvas [is] the one normally used for hook rugs, i.e. three holes to the inch.
hook-scarf n. hook-scarf-joint = hook-butt n.
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1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §268 To be united to each other by Hook-Scarf-Joints, so as to compose, in effect, one stone.
hook-seam n. (see quot. 1828).
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1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hook-seams, hooks or paniers to carry turf, lead, etc.; now nearly extinct, since the improvement of roads.
hook shop n. slang a brothel.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
stew1362
bordel housec1384
stewc1384
stivec1386
stew-house1436
bordelryc1450
brothel house1486
shop?1515
bains1541
common house1545
bawdy-house1552
hothouse1556
bordello1581
brothela1591
trugging house1591
trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 473/1 Hook shop, a brothel.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 57/2 Hook shop, a house of ill fame.
1954 J. Steinbeck Sweet Thursday vi. 49 This kid could be pure murder in a hook-shop.
hook-shot n. Basketball a twisting shot started when the player has his back to the basket and completed as he pivots round towards the basket.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun] > types of shot or ball
free throw1888
foul shot1902
jump shot1909
jump ball1924
pop shot1933
jumper1937
set shot1940
lay-up1948
fallaway1949
bonus1955
hook-shot1957
sky-hook1959
buzzer beater1965
brick1971
spot-up1992
1957 Encycl. Brit. III. 181 b/1 Farther out..players use a one-hand shot from a stride, jump or standing position, and a hook shot which is overhead.
1969 Z. Hollander Mod. Encycl. Basketball 43 Washington, led by hook-shot artist Jack Nichols, defeated Oregon State.
1969 New Yorker 14 June 79/1 You go through Harlem and you'll see kids less than five feet tall with pretty good jump shots and hook shots.
hook-squid n. a decapodous cephalopod of the family Onychoteuthididae, having long tentacles armed with hooks, the bases of which are furnished with suckers.
hook stroke n. Cricket a stroke made by hitting a short-pitched ball, after it has risen, round to leg with a horizontal swing of the bat.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke
long ball1744
nip1752
catch1816
no-hit1827
cut1833
short hit1833
draw1836
drive1836
square hit1837
skylarker1839
skyer1840
skyscraper1842
back-cut1845
bum1845
leg sweep1846
slog1846
square cut1850
driver1851
Harrow drive1851
leg slip1852
poke1853
snick1857
snorter1859
leg stroke1860
smite1861
on-drive1862
bump ball1864
rocketer1864
pull1865
grass trimmer1867
late cut1867
off-drive1867
spoon1871
push1873
push stroke1873
smack1875
Harrow drive1877
pull-stroke1880
leg glance1883
gallery-hit1884
boundary-stroke1887
glide1888
sweep1888
boundary1896
hook1896
leg glide1896
backstroke1897
flick1897
hook stroke1897
cover-drive1898
straight drive1898
square drive1900
edger1905
pull-drive1905
slash1906
placing stroke1907
push drive1912
block shot1915
if-shot1920
placing shot1921
cow-shot1922
mow1925
Chinese cut1937
haymaker1954
hoick1954
perhapser1954
air shot1956
steepler1959
mishook1961
swish1963
chop-
1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iv. 194 Batsmen of the old school very much disliked the hook-stroke on principle.
1908 Daily Chron. 15 May 8/2 He began exploiting the full drive and the hook stroke.
1911 C. B. Fry in P. F. Warner Bk. of Cricket xiii. 226 Ranjitsinhji found almost as little difficulty in making his famous ‘hook strokes’.
1945 N. Cardus Eng. Cricket 38 Maclaren was the grand manner personified; with his hook-stroke he dismissed the fastest ball from his presence.
hook-sucker n. a fish that takes a hook or bait with a sucking motion ( Cent. Dict.).
hook-swivel n. the swivel of a gorge-hook.
hook tender n. North American (see quot. 1905).
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > other lumbering personnel
hook tender1893
whistle punk1925
1893 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 196/1 Each man, being hired for a definite purpose, as chopper, hook-tender, barker, [etc.]..keeps closely to his own job.
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 3 Nov. 5/2 Seventy-five cents was taken off hook-tenders and other men not necessarily expert.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 40 Hook tender, the foreman of a yarding crew; specifically, one who directs the attaching of the cable to a turn of logs.
1966 Vancouver Sun 12 Jan. 25/5 Moore said the industry needs more managers, logging operators, hook-tenders..‘and even chokermen’.
hook-tip n. a moth of the genus Platypteryx, having the tips of the wings hook-shaped.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Notodontidae > member of genus Platypterx
hook-tip1819
1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 254 Hooktip moths.
1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 205 The boundary line between the two colours is straight in the Hook-tips.
1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 206 The Scalloped Hook-tip.
hook-ward n. a ward of a lock having the shape of the letter L.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > ward
wardc1440
main-ward1678
step-ward1678
hook-ward1688
wheel1784
bridgeward1856
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 301/2 Hookward, any cross Ward that cometh out from it [the Key].
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools
hook-ware1541
1541 Aberdeen Reg. V. 17 (Jam.) Tar, pik, hemp, irn, & huik-wair.
hook-weed n. = hook-heal n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts > self-heal
self-heallOE
brunel1527
prunella1527
carpenter's herb1578
hook-heal1578
prunel1578
sicklewort1597
prince's feather1818
hook-weed1861
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 205 Carpenter's-Herb, Sickle-wort, and Hookweed.
hook-wrench n. a spanner with a bent end adapted to grasp and turn a nut or coupling piece.
Derivatives
hook-like adj.
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1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. 323 A hook-like bearded dart.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour vi. 91 Projecting hook-like barbs.
hookwise adv. after the fashion, or in the manner of a hook.
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1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 16 b/2 A Spatula, may be vsede in place of a privet..and the same being hoockwise, is called Agrimeles.
Draft additions March 2007
A memorable or catchy passage in a piece of popular music.
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1975 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 16 Feb. 21/3 e During the hour they were on stage, the foursome..gave the near-capacity crowd..heavy party music with an occasional catchy hook.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 July c22/4 The bitter medicine of Miss Davis's songs is sweetened by catchy pop hooks and a melodramatic delivery.
1992 DJ 26 Nov. 43/2 Strong, funky vocals with a hook that gets into your head and just won't go away.
2001 Muzik Jan. 107/4 A delightful Dutch creation powered by a phat bass and phunky beats, with a hook reminiscent of ‘Kemkraft 400’ to ensure dancefloor devastation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
hookn.2
local.
The projecting upper part of the thigh bones of cattle near the hip-joint. Cf. huck n.1 and huckle-bone n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > hip or thigh bone
pin1703
hook1808
hook-bone1844
1808 T. H. Horne Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) 9 The roof [of a bull ought to be] wide, particularly over the chine and hips, or hooks.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 161 Between the shoulders and the hook.
1900 Westmorland Gaz. 3 Feb. (advt.) (E.D.D.) Strayed, two Herdwick ewes; marked red pop near shoulder and near hook.
1935 Amer. Speech 10 271/1 Hooks, hip bones of a cow.
Derivatives
hook-bone n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > hip or thigh bone
pin1703
hook1808
hook-bone1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1253 The broad hook-bones, with the narrow chest, are not entirely occasioned in cows by calf-breeding.
1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows 17 The Ayrshire farmers prefer their dairy bulls..broad at the hook-bones and hips, and full in the flanks.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 95/2 As is good breadth between the hookbones.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
hookv.
/hʊk/, U.S. /hʊk/ 1. transitive. To make hook-like or hooked; to bend, crook, incurve. rare.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (transitive)] > curve like hook
hooka1250
aduncated?1787
pot-hook1876
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 377 Ȝif hundes urneþ to him ward He..hokeþ paþes swiþe narewe.
1483 Cath. Angl. 191/2 To Huke, hamare.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niii/1 To Hooke,..incuruare.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Vncinare To hooke, to crooke.
2. intransitive. To bend or curve sharply; to have a hooked shape.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [verb (intransitive)] > like a hook
hookc1420
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 202 It is so ferd of oiles, that therfro Hit hoketh, yf me sette it nygh thervnder.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. v. 14 Melons cannot abide oile..let oile stand the like distance from them, shrinke they will from it, and hooke upward.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 383 Her bill hooks and bends downwards.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4011/4 His Nose somewhat hooking.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 109 Beak straight in the beginning, but hooking at the point.
3. intransitive. To move with a sudden turn or twist. Now slang or dialect. To make off. Also to hook it and (New Zealand) to hook off.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move with sudden turn
hookc1540
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4621 All the company enclinet, cairyn to ship..Hokit out of hauyn, all the hepe somyn.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 243 He..was always hooking about on mysterious voyages.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 123/2 He slipped from her and hooked it.
1862 H. Kingsley Ravenshoe III. xi. 184 When the experienced hunter sees him doing that, he, so to speak, ‘hooks it’.
1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal I. iii. 37 Hook up the steps, if you please.
1886 S. Baring-Gould Golden Feather viii. 20 Anything does to burn..human creatures as well, if they don't hook out of the windows.
1938 F. S. Anthony in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 219 I hooked off on my own and rambled aimlessly about.
1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 75 If Ted saw her coming up the road he'd hook off if he could before she got near. And if he couldn't I'd hook off while they had their barney.
4.
a. transitive. To lay hold of or grasp with a hook; to make fast, attach, or secure with a hook or hooks, or in the manner of a hook; to connect or fasten together with hooks, or hooks and eyes.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > catch with hook(s)
crochea1225
crome1558
hook1611
adhamate1623
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with hook (and eye)
hook1611
hook-and-eye1827
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haver,..to hooke, or grapple with a hooke.
c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1359 In old time gentlemen would..cry, come trusse me; now ye word is, Come hooke me..the needle lance knights..putt so many hookes & eyes to every hose & Dubblet.
1634 T. Heywood Maidenhead Lost i, in Wks. (1874) IV. 112 At last we came to hooke our ladders, and By them to skale.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 222 A third..Had not due time to hook his dropping Breeches!
1723 J. Clarke tr. Rohault's Syst. Nat. Philos. I. i. xxii. 135 Their Particles are so hooked together, that they may be bent any way.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 287 When the harpoon..slipped out..it luckily hooked the lines belonging to another boat.
1895 The Season Mar. 84 Stuff put plain or pleated over lining hooked down the middle in front.
1895 The Season Mar. 95 Cape hooked over at the side.
b. to hook on, to hook in, to hook up, to attach by means of a hook, e.g. a horse to a vehicle, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > harness or yoke
yokeOE
harness13..
cart-saddle1377
join1377
couple1393
enharness1490
benda1522
bind1535
span1550
team1552
spang1580
inyoke1595
trace1605
enclose?1615
gear1638
to get in1687
reharness1775
reyoke1813
to hook up1825
inspan1834
hitch1844
pole1846
stock1909
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [verb (transitive)] > yoke (a horse, cart, or carriage)
join1377
couple1393
bind1535
to put in1709
to put to1732
to hook up1825
inspan1834
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 428 There are many other ways by which the hooking up of the yarns may be effected.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. viii. 131 Maintop there, hook on your stays.
1844 Mrs. Houstoun Texas & Gulf of Mexico I. 5 After being hooked on to a steamer, we were tugged rapidly down the river.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 16 They saw a horse hooked up to the post of the inn.
1883 Chicago Advance 23 Aug. The livery man hooked up for us as fine a team.
1897 Cavalry Tactics xvi. 112 The breast-harness horses in the cavalry ranks should be hooked in.
c. To make (rugs) with a hook: see hooked rug at hooked adj. Compounds. U.S.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > make other specific articles or materials [verb (transitive)] > process in making rugs
hook1882
1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 126/1 Cynthy Ann..hooked rugs from early in the morning until late into the night.
1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I 66 A time to repair machinery, hook rugs, patch quilts, mend harness and perform other leisurely tasks.
d. intransitive. To use a crochet needle.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > manufacture textile fabric [verb (intransitive)] > other
net1674
hook1854
crochet-
1854 C. M. Yonge Castle Builders vi. 81 Miss Townsend..hooked away with her crochet needle.
e. to hook up: to establish a link with, to make a connection with. Also const. to, and with direct object. Cf. hookup n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > link together > establish a link with
to link up with1899
tiea1912
to hook up1925
1925 H. Crane Let. 27 Oct. (1965) 218 They want to hook the book up with an illustrious name.
1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking v. 172 What I would propose is that we take a short cut through the fields to the station, hook up with the five-fifty express at Goresby, [etc.].
1943 E. C. Wicks et al. Shopwork vi. 113 Whenever electricity is needed for any purpose, the particular job must be wired or ‘hooked-up’ to feed the electrical current to the necessary place.
1953 P. C. Berg Dict. New Words 94/1 Hook-up, v.t., to connect two or more broadcasting systems for the time needed to broadcast a common item on their otherwise different programmes.
1971 Ink 12 June 12/1 David Mercer's moving and intelligent portrait of a Marxist drama critic who can't hook up his ideology with his unresolved feelings towards his impossible working-class father.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 84 Hook up, to couple a tractor to a trailer.
1972 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 31 Aug. 3/4 RCMP and city police forces in Alberta have begun hooking up to a national computer system.
5.
a. intransitive (for reflexive). To attach oneself or be attached with or as with a hook; to be coupled. to hook on (figurative): to join on; to be consequent or continuous.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > be fastened [verb (intransitive)] > be attached with hook
hook1600
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > come in due order or course [verb (intransitive)] > be connected or follow in proper order
takea1425
to hook on1885
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 164 Goe with her, with her, hooke on, hooke on. View more context for this quotation
1774 C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 181 Two small steel rods..hook into the ends of this board.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough i. ii If it had been tighter, 'twould neither have hooked nor buttoned.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Brighton in 1847 i, in Punch 13 153/1 He hooked on to my arm as if he had been the Old Man of the Sea.
1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus viii. 93 Haven't you missed out a lot, sir?..because it don't seem to me to hook on quite.
b. Usually in past participle hooked (on): addicted (to), captivated (by). slang.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > infatuated
assote1393
assotted1393
embabuinized1603
cunt-struck1876
stoked1902
nuts1908
hooked (on)1925
crackers1928
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually > given or addicted to something
given1487
addict1530
addicted1546
apt?1550
prostitute1591
hooked (on)1925
1925 Writer's Monthly June 486/2 Hooked, to become a drug addict.
1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) vi. 115 Waldo Winchester is hooked.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie i. 9 I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie vi. 62 When you are hooked, the effects of a shot are not dramatic.
1964 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 22/6 The chances are that he is hooked on opium, morphine or heroin.
1965 New Statesman 16 Apr. 620/3 Other cities have admirers, even lovers, but Liverpool has only addicts: either you are hooked the very first time you step out of Lime Street Station to be confronted by the bulk of St George's Hall, or you never get the message.
1966 ‘E. McGirr’ Funeral was in Spain 137 She was half~way to being hooked: one of the punks she was with was a pusher.
1967 M. M. Glatt et al. Drug Scene in Great Brit. ii. 21 Once you're registered, you're hooked. It's too depressing when you're hooked, besides a girl looks terrible on heroin.
1967 New Scientist 25 May 478 Hopes that the millions of men and women ‘hooked’ on tobacco may soon be able to satisfy their craving with a ‘safe’ cigarette are not supported by the facts.
1970 Daily Tel. 8 May 3/2 Hundreds of domestic pets die each year after becoming ‘hooked’ on slug bait.
6. transitive. To snatch with a hook; to seize by stealth; to steal, pilfer. Cf. hooker n.1 1.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] > steal with a hook
hook1615
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > pilfer [verb (transitive)]
mitcha1393
pelfa1400
purloinc1475
prowl?1529
finger1530
pilfer1532
lurchc1565
filch1567
filch1574
proloyne1581
nim1606
hook1615
truff1718
snaffle1725
crib1735
pettifog1759
magg1762
niffle1785
cabbage1793
weed1811
nibble1819
cab1825
smouch1826
snuga1859
mooch1862
attract1891
souvenir1897
rat1906
snipe1909
promote1918
salvage1918
smooch1941
1615 T. Tomkis Albumazar iii. iii. sig. F2v Picking of lockes, or hooking cloathes at windows.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves (new ed.) 27 Like Theeues, that Hooking [1628 (earlier ed.) looking] for cloathes in the darke, they draw the Owner, which takes, and then imprisons them.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 47 To hooke or draw any thing from thence, is a sinne.
?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 200 Mony a pursie she had hooked.
1857 N.Y. Tribune A maid hooked one of her mistress's dresses the other day.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxx. 264 To hook the money and hide it.
7.
a. To catch (a fish) with a hook: applied both to the external use of a large hook, and to that of the baited hook which is swallowed.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > hook fish
hang1674
hook1771
1700 J. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 326 This bait..is to hook-in somewhat else.]
1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 178 A few small flounders, which are hooked up out of the water, with a sort of harpoon.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. xi. 1831 This day we hooked plenty of fine cod.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. i. 227 It is not every fish you hook that comes to the creel.
b. figurative. To catch, secure, e.g. as a husband, etc.
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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > catching or capture > catch or capture [verb (transitive)]
i-lecchec1000
fang1016
hentOE
takeOE
alatchlOE
catchc1275
wina1300
to take ina1387
attain1393
geta1400
overhent?a1400
restay?a1400
seizea1400
tachec1400
arrest1481
carrya1500
collara1535
snap1568
overgo1581
surprise1592
nibble1608
incaptivate1611
nicka1640
cop1704
chop1726
nail1735
to give a person the foot1767
capture1796
hooka1800
sniba1801
net1803
nib1819
prehend1831
corral1860
rope1877
a1800 T. Bellamy Beggar Boy (1801) II. 97 He was anticipating..the young spendthrifts whom he hoped to hook at the gaming-table.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iv. 25 The first woman who fishes for him, hooks him.
1897 F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester Pref. 49 A man trying to hook a well-off widow.
c. To solicit as a prostitute. Cf. hooker n.1 4. slang.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > solicit
to hawk one's muttona1529
to sell one's bacon1825
importune1871
hook1959
1959 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Wedge (1961) vi. 57 She's been in the city for almost a year, Pete. Hooking mostly.
1965 ‘E. McBain’ Doll (1966) v. 66 The girl was a prostitute... The girl had been hooking in the neighborhood for little more than a week.
1969 T. M. Disch & J. T. Sladek Black Alice v. 53 Bessie's girls didn't have to go out hooking in hotel lobbies or honkytonks, no indeedy.
1971 W. Hanley Blue Dreams xix. 313 A high-class hooker couldn't be entirely without redeeming social value. Especially one who..taught English and hooked on the side.
8. transferred and figurative.
Thesaurus »
a. To catch hold of and draw as with a hook; to drag.
b. To attach as with a hook.
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1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande i. f. 3v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Neighbourhoode bredde acquaintance, acquaintance wasted in ye Irish tongue, the Irishe hooked with it attyre.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 7 The harlot-King Is quite beyond mine Arme..but shee, I can hooke to me. View more context for this quotation
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Glouc. 358 A Dictionary, or Vocabulary, hooking all words..within the compass thereof.
a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 213 There is nothing, which each of these Powers will not hook within the verge of its cognizance, and jurisdiction.
1764 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 199 He hooked me, unawares, into a little dispute.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 160 If I Should hook it to some useful end.
c. In Golf, To drive (the ball) widely to the left hand. In Cricket, To play (the ball) round from the ‘off’ to the ‘on’ side without hitting it at the pitch. = draw v. 30; cf. hook stroke n. at hook n.1 Compounds 2. Also absol.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > play golf [verb (transitive)] > type of play or stroke
drive1743
draw1842
heel1857
hook1857
loft1857
founder1878
to top a ball1881
chip1889
duff1890
pull1890
slice1890
undercut1891
hack1893
toe1893
spoon1896
borrow1897
overdrive1900
trickle1902
bolt1909
niblick1909
socket1911
birdie1921
eagle1921
shank1925
explode1926
bird1930
three-putt1946
bogey1948
double-bogey1952
fade1953
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke
take1578
stop1744
nip1752
block1772
drive1773
cut1816
draw1816
tip1816
poke1836
spoon1836
mow1844
to put up1845
smother1845
sky1849
crump1850
to pick up1851
pull1851
skyrocket1851
swipe1851
to put down1860
to get away1868
smite1868
snick1871
lift1874
crack1882
smack1882
off-drive1888
snip1890
leg1892
push1893
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flick1897
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chop1898
glance1898
straight drive1898
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edge1904
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mishook1934
middle1954
square-drive1954
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square-cut1976
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1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 695 (Golf) When standing too far, the ball is apt to be ‘drawn’ or ‘hooked’—that is to say, struck with the point or ‘toe’ of the club, in which case the ball flies in to the left.
1896 Badminton Mag. Oct. 482 Gregory, in attempting to hook Peel, put the ball straight into Richardson's hands.
1897 A. Lang in Longman's Mag. Oct. 503 I remember Mr. Fry returning a simple ball as a yet simpler catch to bowler in his first over, all because he tried to hook it.
1898 C. B. Fry in Windsor Mag. June 26/1 His cutting and hooking are second only to Ranji's.
1898 K. S. Ranjitsinhji With Stoddart's Team (ed. 3) iii. 50 He [sc. C. Hill] seemed able to ‘drive’, or ‘hook’, or ‘glance’..with equal skill and success.
1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes vii. 111 Tyldesley, whether he was..forcing a short ball between the covers, hooking or glancing to leg, was perfect in his timing of the ball.
1955 Times 9 May 15/2 Then, when he must have been looking ahead to a century, he was leg-before-wicket hooking at Heine.
1955 Times 13 July 8/6 He then hit Goddard almost for 6 to long-on and hooked him for another vivid boundary.
1972 ‘J. Ross’ Here lies Nancy Frail xii. 145 I'm bloody useless with a two wood... I hook like hell with it.
d. Boxing. To strike (one's opponent) a swinging blow with the elbow bent (cf. hook n.1 13b). Also absol.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > actions
parry1672
punish1801
pink1810
shy1812
sling1812
mug1818
weave1818
prop1846
feint1857
counter1861
cross-counter1864
slip1897
hook1898
unload1912
to beat a person to the punch1923
mitt1930
tag1938
counterpunch1964
1898 Daily News 24 Nov. 8/3 Corbett hooked with his right hard on Sharkey's jaw.
1910 J. Driscoll Ringcraft 86 Wild attempts to hook him on his well protected jaw.
1973 Times 14 Feb. 9/3 Bugner..clubs rather than hooks.
e. Rugby. To secure (the ball) with the foot, as hooker, when it is placed in the scrummage. Also intransitive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > play rugby football [verb (transitive)] > actions to ball
to knock on1642
punt1845
to touch down1859
ground1863
touch1864
scrimmage1871
heel1886
scrum1889
hook1906
tap-kick1960
1906 D. Gallaher & W. J. Stead Compl. Rugby Footballer vii. 110 In Britain it is the custom to hook the ball in the scrum with the outside feet crossing over those on the inside.
1913 Daily Graphic 24 Mar. 15/1 D. A. Greer..may be of use to Ireland henceforward, especially as ‘hooking’ is his forte.
1927 W. W. Wakefield & H. P. Marshall Rugger 183 The front row tried trick hooking and foot-up tactics.
1955 Times 1 Aug. 2/3 Kroon's brilliant hooking has been a feature of the season's provincial matches.
9. hook in: to draw in with or as with a hook; figurative to get hold of as best one may; to secure by hook or by crook; to bring or drag (a person) in unwillingly or against his judgement.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by hook or by crook
hook in1551
society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > to or into an action or state > drag in
hook in1551
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Evi An other..aduyseth to howke in the kynge of Castell.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 62 Mils..having an iron wheele, which doeth not onely drive the saw, but hooketh in, and turneth the boords to the saw.
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 293 Servants standing at the doore to hook in customers.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 114 Hooking in a larger revenue to their own Exchequer.
1772 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 396 If they can hook in any job or patronage they will.
1836 J. Halley in Arnot Life (1842) 77 I have been hooked in for an essay.
10. To link by a hook or bent part.
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1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 116 Holding the other extremity in your hand, or hooked over the arm.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iv. 84 At last I hook'd my ancle in a vine.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. xv. 285 He hooked his arm into Tom's and led the way into the town.
11. To catch on the horns, attack with the horns, as a cow. Also absol. U.S.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [verb (intransitive)] > attack with the horns
hook1838
1838 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 2nd Ser. viii. 79 As a hookin' cow does [carry] a board over her eyes to keep her from makin' right at you.
1865 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 86 The oxen lashed their tails and hooked.
12. To furnish with a hook (see hook n.1 10a).
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [verb (transitive)] > other forms
hook1867
lowercase1895
1867 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. (ed. 12) 30 The downward r and s do not require to be hooked for rr, sr.
13. to hook Jack: to play truant. U.S. colloquial. (Cf. hookey n. 1.)
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society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant
to play truant1560
mitch1580
mooch1622
to trig it1796
plunk1808
minch1836
wag1847
to play hookey1848
to hop the wag1861
to play (the) wag1861
to hook Jack1877
to bag school1934
to go on the hop1959
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 294 Hook Jack, to play truant. New England.
1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 22 Hookey, in ‘to play hookey’, meaning to play truant, used in Maine, but not usual in Boston, where the phrase was and is to ‘hook Jack’.
1892 Dial. Notes 216 In all the period from 1840 to 1850 the current phrase among the boys was to hook Jack.
1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 70 The boy ‘hooked Jack’ for a whole day.
1967 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvii. 7 Hook jack, ‘play hookey’.
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to hook up Originally and chiefly U.S. Cf. sense 4e.
1. intransitive. To get married or become involved in a romantic relationship; to engage in sexual activity. Usually with with.
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the mind > emotion > love > love affair > have affectionate or sexual relationship [verb (intransitive)]
to hook up1903
to get with ——1916
involve1936
to have a thing (with a person)1959
to have something going (with someone)1971
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)]
weda1225
marrya1325
spousec1390
to make matrimonyc1400
intermarry1528
contract1530
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535
to make a match1547
yoke1567
match1569
mate1589
to go to church (with a person)1600
to put one's neck in a noosec1600
paira1616
to join giblets1647
buckle1693
espouse1693
to change (alter) one's condition1712
to tie the knot1718
to marry out1727
to wedlock it1737
solemnize1748
forgather1768
unite1769
connubiate1814
conjugalize1823
connubialize1870
splice1874
to get hitched up1890
to hook up1903
1903 G. Ade People you Know 69 Then he hooked up with Laura so as to get a real Home.
1950 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 9 June If I weren't married to Miss Mary and didn't love Miss Mary, I would try to hook up with either of them.
1989 S. Forward Toxic Parents ii. xiii. 254 I keep hooking up with these cold, unresponsive guys.
1992 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 30 July 1 I'll look at a guy and wonder what he does... I might make conversation, but the goal isn't to hook up with him.
2005 R. Rossi Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.: Off the Rec. 73 Some [guys] are jerks and just want to hook up, yet some are genuinely sweet and would make the best boyfriend or best friend.
2. intransitive. To meet; to join forces. Usually with with.
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1906 S. Ford Shorty McCabe i. 11 So I hooks up with Leonidas.
1915 Atlanta Constit. 29 Aug. Tom has a proposition that may interest you, Peters, and if not you will know somebody for him to hook up with.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 21 June a18 He was forced to hook up with the right-wing religious parties to assemble a parliamentary majority.
1994 Rolling Stone 30 June 29/2 It will be great to hook up and tell stories and exchange dance moves.
2003 R. Candappa Universally Challenged 8 The key point here is to over-exaggerate just how great a time you're having, how stonking the nightlife is, and how you've hooked up with a gang of new mates who it feels like you've known all your life.
3. transitive. To join or bring (a person) together with another person or people; to join or bring (people) together. Also: to provide (a person) with something; to provide something for.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)] > bring a person into some relation with another
fellowshipa1382
connect1750
to hook up1909
1909 Chicago Sunday Tribune 28 Mar. (Worker's Mag.) 3/2 They [sc. his employers] hooked him up with another young fellow who knew the practical side of things, and the two worked together in team formation.
1911 Dothan (Alabama) Eagle 9 Dec. Wonder what kind of female..she's going to hook me up with this time?
1983 UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Nov. 3 Hook me up with some bills.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 14 Mar. 51 Serendipity has a habit of hooking us up again and each time is like a joyful reunion.
2005 W. J. Smith Enemies in Disguise 33 My friend was just telling me that he needs a haircut, can you hook him up for me?
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