4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hook \Hook\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hooked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hooking}.]
1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize,
capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or
baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice;
to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --W.
Collins.
2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle
in attacking enemies; to gore.
3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
{To hook on}, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hooked \Hooked\, adjective
1. Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill
of a bird.
2. Provided with a hook or hooks. ''The hooked chariot.''
--Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hooked
adjective
1: curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: {aquiline}]
2: addicted to a drug [syn: {dependent}, {dependant}, {drug-addicted},
{strung-out}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "hooked":
Roman-nosed, V-shaped, Y-shaped, absorbed in, addicted,
addicted to, akimbo, angular, aquiline, aquiline-nosed, beak-nosed,
beak-shaped, beaked, bent, bill-like, bill-shaped, billed,
caught up in, clawlike, cornered, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed,
crotched, dependent, dependent on, down-curving, enmeshed in,
entangled in, far-gone, forked, furcal, furcate, geniculate,
geniculated, habituated, habitue, hamate, hamiform, hamulate,
hooked on, hooklike, immersed in, implicated in, in a rut,
involved in, jagged, knee-shaped, never free from, parrot-nosed,
pointed, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, saw-toothed, sawtooth,
serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, spaced out, submerged in,
tied up in, unciform, uncinate, unguiform, used to, wrapped up in,
zigzag
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