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Hooked

//hʊkt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.

    "a hooked nose"

  2. 2
    Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.

    "He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies."

Adjective
  1. 1
    addicted to a drug wordnet
  2. 2
    curved down like an eagle's beak wordnet
  3. 3
    having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of hook form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hook + -ed.

Etymology 2

From hook + -ed.

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