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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.