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1. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
2. (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
3. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
4. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
5. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
6. (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
7. (UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
8. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
9. (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
10. To acquire as a spouse.
11. (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
12. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
13. (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
14. (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
15. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
16. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
17. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
18. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
19. (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
20. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

Substantiivi

1. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
2. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
3. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
4. The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
5. The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
6. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
7. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
8. A snare; a trap.
9. An advantageous hold.
10. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
11. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
12. (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
13. (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
14. (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
15. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
16. (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
17. A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
18. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
19. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
20. (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
21. (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
22. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
23. (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
24. (typography, rare) A háček.
25. Senses relating to sports.
26. (baseball) A curveball.
27. (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
28. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
29. (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
30. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
31. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
32. The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
33. (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
34. (slang) A prostitute.
35. (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
36. (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
37. (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.