hooked
adjective
[ ˈhʊkt ]
• curved like a hook.
• "a golden eagle with hooked beak"
Similar:
curved,
hook-shaped,
hooklike,
aquiline,
bent,
bowed,
recurved,
angular,
falcate,
falciform,
uncinate,
• addicted.
• "a girl who got hooked on cocaine"
Similar:
addicted to,
dependent on,
with a … habit,
using,
jonesing on/for,
• (of a rug or mat) made by pulling woollen yarn through canvas with a hook.
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’.