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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,
Opposite: straight,
• addicted.
• "a girl who got hooked on cocaine"
Similar: addicted to, dependent on, with a … habit, using, jonesing on/for,
Opposite: clean,
• (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"
Similar: attach, fix, hitch, fasten, secure, clasp, hasp, grapple,
Opposite: unhitch,
• catch with a hook.
• "he hooked a 24 lb pike"
Similar: catch, take, land, net, bag, snare, ensnare, trap, entrap,
Opposite: release,
• 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’.


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