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Verbit

1. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
2. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
3. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
4. (UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
5. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
6. (Usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
7. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
8. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
9. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
10. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
11. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
12. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
13. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

Substantiivit

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 fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
3. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook
4. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
5. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
6. A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
7. 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.
8. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
9. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
10. (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.
11. (baseball) A curveball.
12. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily.
13. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
14. (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.
15. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc.
16. (slang) A jack (the playing card)
17. (typography, rare) A háček.
18. (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.
19. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
20. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
21. A snare; a trap.
22. A field sown two years in succession.
23. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.