hooks, meat hooks, maulers
(noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter); “wait till I get my hooks on him”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hooks
plural of hook
hooks
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hook
• OHKOs, Shook, shook
Hooks (plural Hookses)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hooks is the 2125th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 17053 individuals. Hooks is most common among White (48.78%) and Black/African American (45.31%) individuals.
• OHKOs, Shook, shook
Source: Wiktionary
Hook, n. Etym: [OE. hok, AS. hoc; cf. D. haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. hako, hago, haggo, Icel. haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatch a half door, Heckle.]
1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook. Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook. Pope.
4. (Steam Engin.)
Definition: See Eccentric, and V-hook.
5. A snare; a trap. [R.] Shak.
6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]
7. pl.
Definition: The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones. By hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct or indirect. Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or crook." Spenser.
– Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.] "In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river." Pepys.
– On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility; by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.
– To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
– Bid hook, a small boat hook.
– Chain hook. See under Chain.
– Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests.
– Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc.
– Hook bill (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird.
– Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall.
– Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed by V hooks.
– Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis.
– Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.
Hook, v. t. [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.
Hook, v. i.
Definition: To bend; to curve as a hook.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
