Word Finder - hooked

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To attach a hook to.

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Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

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To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

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He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

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To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

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To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

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He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.

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To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

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A free trial is a good way to hook customers.

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To steal.

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To connect (hook into, hook together).

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If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

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(usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

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He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.

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To play a hook shot.

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To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

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To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

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The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.

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To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.

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To engage in prostitution.

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I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.

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(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

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To finesse.

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To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

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To move or go with a sudden turn.

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Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.

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a hooked nose

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Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.

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He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies.

Winston hooked a leg around a chair and sat.

Jackson, how do you think Cassandra hooked up with Victor?

Remember that Swede vamp I hooked up with in the sixties?

He hooked the light to his belt where it swung in an eerie arc, casting jumping shadows on the rock-strewn slope and yellow streaks into nothingness.

His eyes were small and restless, his nose hooked, he had a beard and moustaches of imposing length.

Alex feigned and then hooked Josh's leg again with the toe of his boot, sending Josh to the floor twice in as many minutes.

You've hooked a fine fellow!

You're a guest, and if you happened to be hooked onto a good man, so be it.

Naw. My guys found a forwarding address someplace out west but there's no phone hooked up yet.

As the platen was very heavy the operator was assisted in raising it from the type-forme by a balance weight suspended upon a hooked lever at the back of the press.

The foremost Frenchman, the one with the hooked nose, was already so close that the expression of his face could be seen.

He towered over them both, the muscles in his arms and shoulders straining against his shirt as he hooked his thumbs in the front pockets of his jeans.

Thank you, but I don't need to be hooked up.

There are monsters and big men with funny … At that point her talking became too quick for the translator hooked on Evelyn's ear to keep up.

You might not know it yet, buddy, but you're hooked.

Her teal gaze was filled with sorrow rather than hope, but her vulnerability hooked him nonetheless.

He was hooked before he came up here that first time.

He'd hooked her and was gently reeling her in.

The East African gerenuk, or Waller's gazelle (Lithocranius walleri), of which two races have been named, is a very remarkable ruminant, distinguished not only by its exceedingly elongated neck and limbs, but also by the peculiar hooked form of the very massive horns of the bucks, the dense structure and straight profile of the skull, and the extreme slenderness of the lower jaw.

The silk drawn by the rows of teeth on the drum through the porcupine rollers (or porcupine sheets in some cases) covers the whole of the drum, hooked at certain intervals round the teeth; and when a sufficient weight is on the machine, it is stopped, and an attendant cuts, with a knife, the silk along the back of each row of teeth, thus leaving a fringe of silk hooked on the pins or teeth.

This fringe of silk is placed by the attendant between two hinged boards, and whilst held firmly in these boards (called book-boards) is pulled off the machine, and is called a " strip "; the part which has been hooked round the teeth is called the " face," and the other portion the " tail."

While discussing noses, he says that those with thick bulbous ends belong to persons who are insensitive, swinish; sharp-tipped belong to the irascible, those easily provoked, like dogs; rounded, large, obtuse noses to the magnanimous, the lion-like; slender hooked noses to the eagle-like, the noble but grasping; round-tipped retrousse noses to the luxurious, like barndoor fowl; noses with a very slight notch at the root belong to the impudent, the crow-like; while snub noses belong to persons of luxurious habits, whom he compares to deer; open nostrils are signs of passion, &c.

You may just become hooked, like I am.

I "hooked" the apples, leaped the brook, and scared the musquash and the trout.

After a few minutes I was hooked on this game.

Once you're bitten by the wine making bug, you'll be hooked for life!

Once you do, you'll be hooked and off to watch season 2.

As she turned her head, the spoon distorted her nose, making it look longer and hooked.

I'm not going on blind dates or being hooked up with hairy alpha males.

She took the phone from him, avoiding his gaze as she put it back in the holster and hooked the Velcro latch.

In it the hairs are confined to the dorsal middle line and the creeping setae are hooked, of a finer structure than in Chaetosoma, and situated so far forward that the vagina opens amongst them.

Arrived in the intestine of the intermediate host, the hooked embryo is set free and works its way to some distant site.

Scolex with four suckers, rarely hooked, and with a rostellum.

From this point a glandular tube runs to the genital atrium and during the last part of its course is converted into an eversible hooked "cirrus" or penis.

They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms. The flowers are mostly yellow or reddish-yellow, and are succeeded by pear-shaped or egg-shaped fruits, having a broad scar at the top, furnished on their soft, fleshy rind with tufts of small spines.

The wagons are attached at intervals by short lengths of chain lapped twice round the rope and hooked into one of the links, or in some cases the chains are hooked into hempen loops on the main rope.

This shape is most suitable for planing uneven timber, as inequalities are "hooked off" by the curved blade.

The dorsal surface is smooth; ventrally there are five pairs of parapodia, armed with supporting and hooked setae, by means of which the worm adheres to its host.

In many bamboos they are long and spreading or drooping and copiously ramified, in others they are reduced to hooked spines.

In Tragus the glumes bear numerous short hooked bristles.

In Armenia and Asia Minor they are robust, thick-set and coarse-featured, with straight black hair and large hooked noses.

The leaves of the involucre are spiny in thistles and in teazel (Dipsacus), and hooked in burdock.

There are monsters and big men with funny … At that point her talking became too quick for the translator hooked on Evelyn's ear to keep up.

He has a sharp hooked beak, colored dark blue.

Debbie was an ex junkie, sex maniac and playboy bunny who hooked up with Stein photographer and musician and boyfriend.

Tambour is a French word meaning ' drum ' The tambour method uses a hooked needle to make a continuous chain stitch.

By the time we get to the almost criminally enjoyable climactic chase, we're completely and utterly hooked.

Thomas is now comatose and hooked up to a respirator and was recently flown back to the UK.

The Stafford University graduates hooked up three years ago after bonding over a love of literate guitar combos.

She's chewing the cud in the kitchen whilst waiting to be hooked up to the Ultimate Coffee Machine.