hook
noun
[ hʊk ]
• a piece of metal or other hard material curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on.
• "a picture hook"
Similar:
peg,
holder,
fastener,
fastening,
catch,
clasp,
hasp,
clip,
pin,
buckle,
hook and eye,
fibula,
• a thing designed to catch people's attention.
• "companies are looking for a sales hook"
• a curved cutting instrument, especially as used for reaping or shearing.
• a short swinging punch made with the elbow bent and rigid, especially in boxing.
• "a perfectly timed right hook to the chin"
Similar:
punch,
blow,
hit,
box,
cuff,
thump,
smack,
crack,
knock,
thwack,
skelp,
belt,
bop,
biff,
sock,
clout,
whack,
wallop,
plug,
slug,
whop,
slosh,
dot,
boff,
dong,
• a curved stroke in handwriting.
• a curved promontory or sand spit.
hook
verb
• attach or fasten with a hook or hooks.
• "the truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgate"
• catch with a hook.
• "he hooked a 24 lb pike"
• attract and hold the attention of; captivate.
• "I was hooked by John's radical zeal"
• hit (the ball) round to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height; hit a ball delivered by (the bowler) with such a stroke.
• secure (the ball) and pass it backwards with the foot in the scrum.
Origin:
Old English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’.