Definition of hook

"hook" in the noun sense

1. hook

a catch for locking a door

2. hook, crotchet

a sharp curve or crook a shape resembling a hook

3. bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener

anything that serves as an enticement

4. hook, claw

a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

5. hook

a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

6. hook, draw, hooking

a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer

"he took lessons to cure his hooking"

7. hook

a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

8. hook shot, hook

a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

"hook" in the verb sense

1. hook

fasten with a hook

2. overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook

rip off ask an unreasonable price

3. crochet, hook

make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

"She sat there crocheting all day"

4. hook

hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left

5. hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom

take by theft

"Someone snitched my wallet!"

6. pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift

make off with belongings of others

7. hook

hit with a hook

"His opponent hooked him badly"

8. hook

catch with a hook

"hook a fish"

9. addict, hook

to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

10. hook

secure with the foot

"hook the ball"

11. hook, snare

entice and trap

"The car salesman had snared three potential customers"

12. hook, solicit, accost

approach with an offer of sexual favors

"he was solicited by a prostitute"

"The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

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Quotations for hook

By hook or by crook. [ Proverb ]

The bait hides the hook. [ Proverb ]

To fish with a golden hook.

Hope is a bait that covers any hook. [ Ben Jonson ]

A hook's well lost to catch a salmon. [ Proverb ]

The great put the little on the hook. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A hook is well lost to catch a salmon. [ Proverb ]

Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Honest is the cat when the meat is upon the hook. [ Proverb ]

Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook baited. [ Proverb ]

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. [ Talleyrand ]

The fish may be caught in a net, that will not come to a hook. [ Proverb ]

Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]

When you have formed your plans, be quick to execute them; one will catch his fish before another shall have baited his hook. [ E. Rich ]

Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. [ Colton ]

hook in Scrabble®

The word hook is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters hook:

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hook in Words With Friends™

The word hook is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters hook:

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Words within the letters of hook

2 letter words in hook (1 word)

3 letter words in hook (1 word)

4 letter words in hook (1 word)

hook + 1 blank (3 words)

hook + 2 blanks (6 words)

Word Growth involving hook

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Longer words containing hook

buttonhook buttonhooked

buttonhook buttonhooking

buttonhook buttonhooks

cuphook cuphooks

eyehook eyehooks

fingerhook fingerhooks

fishhook fishhooks

grabhook grabhooks

hookahs

hooked buttonhooked

hooked rehooked

hooked unhooked

hooker hookers pinhookers

hooker pinhooker pinhookers

hooking buttonhooking

hooking rehooking

hooking unhooking

hookless

hooklet hooklets

hooklike

hookmaker hookmakers

hookmaking

hooknosed

hooknoses

hooks breasthooks

hooks buttonhooks

hooks cuphooks

hooks eyehooks

hooks fingerhooks

hooks fishhooks

hooks grabhooks

hooks lunchhooks

hooks meathooks

hooks nuthooks

hooks pinhooks

hooks pothooks

hooks reaphooks

hooks rehooks

hooks sheephooks

hooks shooks

hooks tenterhooks

hooks unhooks

hooks weedhooks

hookup hookups

hookworm hookwormers

hookworm hookworms

hooky

meathook meathooks

nuthook nuthooks

pinhook pinhooker pinhookers

pinhook pinhooks

pothook pothooks

reaphook reaphooks

rehook rehooked

rehook rehooking

rehook rehooks

sheephook sheephooks

shook reshook

shook shooks

tenterhook tenterhooks

unhook unhooked

unhook unhooking

unhook unhooks