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Another word for hook

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Noun

  1. A device for fastening or for checking motion

    See also:

    move

Verb

  1. To take (another's property) without permission

    Idioms:
    See also:

    give

    crimes

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Another word for hook

Noun

  1. An implement for snagging

    See also:

    fastener

  2. A curved implement for cutting

    See also:

    tool

Verb

  1. To curve in the shape of a hook

    See also:

    arch

  2. To catch on a hook

    See also:

    fasten

  3. *To attain one's end by trickery

    See also:

    deceive

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • I caught fish with hook and line and pole.

  • After dinner you can hook me up.

  • "Kind of lets you off the hook, don't it?" the old man said with a smile.

  • The fishery is also carried on along the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk, where great quantities of the fish are caught with hook and line, and conveyed to market alive in "well-boats" specially built for this traffic. Such boats have been in use since the beginning of the '8th century.

  • He wants to hook you up with his brother, by the way.

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