a hook used to lift objects into the air from an aircraft or aerial cableway
2. mountaineering
a hook that provides a hold on small protrusions or slippery surfaces
3. parachuting
a hook for extracting a reserve parachute
4.
a hook used as a releasable fastener for a skateboard
skyhook in American English
(ˈskaiˌhuk)
noun
1.
a fanciful hook imagined to be suspended in the air
2.
any of various lifting devices, as one hung from a helicopter, designed to lift heavy loads to distances beyond the reach of a jib crane
3.
a high, arching hook shot in basketball
Word origin
[1910–15; sky + hook1]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: carbon cycle, homeroom, insulin, radio, spotlight