crook
noun
[ krʊk ]
• the hooked staff of a shepherd.
• "seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs"
• a person who is dishonest or a criminal.
• "the man's a crook, he's not to be trusted"
Similar:
criminal,
lawbreaker,
offender,
villain,
black hat,
delinquent,
malefactor,
culprit,
wrongdoer,
transgressor,
sinner,
young offender,
juvenile delinquent,
felon,
thief,
robber,
armed robber,
burglar,
housebreaker,
shoplifter,
mugger,
fraudster,
confidence trickster,
swindler,
racketeer,
gunman,
gangster,
outlaw,
bandit,
terrorist,
rapist,
yakuza,
holdupper,
con,
jailbird,
(old) lag,
lifer,
baddie,
shark,
con man,
con artist,
hustler,
crim,
yardbird,
yegg,
lighty,
tief,
tea leaf,
cracksman,
malfeasant,
misfeasor,
infractor,
miscreant,
trespasser,
trusty,
transport,
peculator,
defalcator,
Opposite:
law-abiding citizen,
crook
verb
• bend (something, especially a finger as a signal).
• "he crooked a finger for the waitress"
crook
adjective
• bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
• "it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked.
