Hook

//hʊk//

Synonyms for "hook" (486 found)

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Closest matches (98)

Strong matches (145)

clutches cobweb coin collar come on come what may come-on completely con conchoid connect convince cop coral reef corner crane crank crib crochet crook

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Noun(19 words)

come-on courtesan creature of the night crotchet drab draw endpoint everything everything but the kitchen sink full monty gigolo harlot hedge whore hoe hook shot hooker hooking háček kit and caboodle

Verb(11 words)

connect cop crochet fang filch fleece gazump glom hang inosculate join

Adverb(4 words)

downright finally first and last handsomely

Related words (243)

knee knob l lacing land lariat lasso latch lathe let off liberate lift lime line lituus lock long melford loop lure make

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make off with mandibles maxillae meathooks mesh meshes miter mitts mooring mooring buoy moorings mortise mudhook mull nab nail nails naze ness net nick nip nippers nook noose off one-two out of it outtalk overcharge palm parabola peg peninsula persuade pin pincers pinch plug poach pocket point pothook pounces pound net prevail on prevail upon prevail with projection promontory purloin purse seine quoin rabbet recurve reef reflect reflex remove retroflex ring rip off rivet rob rope round round-arm blow roundhouse run away with rustle sack sag sandspit scarf screw scrounge seine seize sell sell one on set free sew shoal shoplift short-arm blow sidewinder sinus skewer slip snag snake snap snare snarl snatch sniggle snitch somehow or other someway spar spear spinner spit spread the toils springe spur squid staple steal stick stitch stud suspender suspenders suspensory swag sway sweep swerve swindle swing swipe tack take talk into talk over talons tangle tangle up with teeth thieve thoroughly through and through toggle toil toils tongue tool totally tracery trap trawl trip turn unguals ungulae uppercut utterly vault veer vertex vindicated vulture walk off with wangle wangle into wear down wedge wholly win win over wind wobbler yard yardarm zag zig zigzag zipper

Verb(19 words)

knock off lift nobble overcharge pilfer pinch pluck plume purloin rob snare snarf sneak snitch soak solicit surcharge swipe thieve

Noun(26 words)

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whole package whole shebang whole shitting match whole shooting match whole smash works

Adverb(9 words)

lock, stock and barrel nothing but outright positively properly purely quite root and branch whole

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

16 relation types

More general

43 entries

accustom basketball shot biff catch cheat chisel clout curve curved shape entice enticement fasten fix furnish golf shot

Showing 16 of 43 words.

More specific

1 entries

grappling hook

Antonyms

1 entries

unhook

Synonyms

8 entries

addict bait callback crochet fishhook hook shot overcharge pilfer

Related terms

1 entries

Hook Norton

at location

2 entries

cupboard end of line

derived

174 entries

Aberdeen hook Bombay Hook Brummel hook Gedge hook Hook End Sandy Hook Welsh hook amnihook anal hook armhook baithook bench hook bid hook bill hook bill-hook blue hook star

Showing 16 of 174 words.

etymologically related_to

1 entries

hake

has context

21 entries

authorship baseball basketball bowling boxing bridge cricket field hockey geography golf hook fish ice hockey music rugby scrabble slang

Showing 16 of 21 words.

is a

10 entries

catch connector curve curved thing golf stroke implement mechaism mechanical device problem with golf swing punch

manner of

7 entries

catch entice fasten hit offer play steal

part of

2 entries

coat hanger grapnel

receives action

1 entries

curved

related to

118 entries

addicted anchor arc attach attention basingstoke basketball bat bend bent bent metal billhook book bounce brief canterbury

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similar

4 entries

accost crochet snare solicit

used for

2 entries

catch fish catch trout while fishing

Translations

321 translations across 95 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

grep noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἀγκυλίς noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Arabic

2 entries

خَطَّاف noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
لَكْمَة خُطَّافِيَّة noun (type of boxing punch)

Armenian

1 entries

կարթ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

qarmaq noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
çəngəl noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Bashkir

1 entries

ырғаҡ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Basque

2 entries

kako noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
mako noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Belarusian

2 entries

крук noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
кручо́к noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Bengali

2 entries

অঙ্কুশ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
হুক noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Bulgarian

4 entries

завърту́лка noun (loop shaped like a hook under certain letters)
импа́с noun (bridge, slang: finesse)
капа́н noun (snare, trap)
кроше́ noun (type of boxing punch)

Burmese

1 entries

ချိတ် noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Catalan

4 entries

croc noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ganxo noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ganxo noun (catchy musical phrase)
ganxo noun (golf shot that curves unintentionally)

Chechen

1 entries

мӏара noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

摆拳 noun (type of boxing punch)
鉤 /钩 noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
鉤子 /钩子 noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Cornish

2 entries

bagh noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
higen noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

ırğaq noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Czech

4 entries

hák noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
hák noun (type of boxing punch)
klička noun (loop shaped like a hook under certain letters)
hákovat verb (slang: to engage in prostitution)

Danish

4 entries

hage noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
hook noun (type of cricket shot)
hook noun (golf shot that curves unintentionally)
hook noun (type of boxing punch)

Dutch

4 entries

haak noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
stevenhaak noun (knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem or the sternpost)
haken verb (to attach a hook to)
verslaven verb (to make addicted)

Esperanto

1 entries

hoko noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Estonian

1 entries

konks noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Faroese

1 entries

krókur noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Finnish

4 entries

ansa noun (snare, trap)
hukki noun (golf shot that curves unintentionally)
jätkä noun (playing cards, slang: jack)
kaaripallo noun (basketball shot that goes overhead)

French

4 entries

agrafe noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
bras roulé noun (basketball shot that goes overhead)
crochet noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
crochet noun (type of boxing punch)

Galician

2 entries

cambito noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
gancho noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Georgian

2 entries

კავი noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
კაუჭი noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

German

4 entries

Haken noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
Haken noun (type of boxing punch)
Hookline noun (catchy musical phrase)
einhaken verb (to connect)

Greek

4 entries

άγκιστρο noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
άγκιστρο noun (loop shaped like a hook under certain letters)
άγκιστρο noun (software feature)
γάντζος noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Hebrew

1 entries

וָו noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Hindi

4 entries

अंकुश noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
आंकड़ा noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
हुक noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
हुक verb (hockey: to engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking)

Hungarian

4 entries

felső kérdőjel noun (typography: a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark: ỏ)
horog noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
horog noun (type of boxing punch)
kampó noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Icelandic

2 entries

haki noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
krókur noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Ido

1 entries

angelagar verb (to catch with a hook)

Indonesian

1 entries

kait noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Interlingua

2 entries

croc noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
uncino noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Irish

4 entries

crúca noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
crúca noun (catchy musical phrase)
dorn noun (type of boxing punch)
húc noun (type of boxing punch)

Italian

4 entries

gancetto noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
gancio noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
gancio noun (basketball shot that goes overhead)
gancio noun (type of boxing punch)

Japanese

4 entries

サビ noun (catchy musical phrase)
フック noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
フック noun (type of boxing punch)
ホック noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Kashubian

1 entries

hôk noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Kazakh

2 entries

ілгек noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ілмек noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Khmer

3 entries

តំពក់ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ថ្ពក់ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ទំពក់ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Korean

3 entries

갈고리 noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
후렴구 noun (catchy musical phrase)
낚다 verb (to catch with a hook)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

илмек noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
илчек noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Lao

3 entries

ຂໍ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ງ່ຽງ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ເບັດ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Latin

3 entries

hāmus noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
uncus noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
adhāmō verb (to catch with a hook)

Latvian

3 entries

kāsis noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
āķis noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ķeksis noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Lithuanian

3 entries

kabliukas noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
kablys noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
vąšelis noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Macedonian

4 entries

кроше́ noun (type of boxing punch)
кука noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
кука noun (software feature)
опашка noun (loop shaped like a hook under certain letters)

Malay

2 entries

cangkuk noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
kait noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Malayalam

4 entries

കൊളുത്ത് noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
കൊളുത്തിടുക verb (to attach a hook to)
കൊളുത്തുക verb (to attach a hook to)
കൊളുത്തുക verb (to catch with a hook)

Manx

2 entries

croagane noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
dooan noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Mi'kmaq

1 entries

mgign noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Mongolian

1 entries

хуукууд noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Māori

2 entries

aukume noun (catchy musical phrase)
pekapeka noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Norwegian

3 entries

huke verb (to catch with a hook)
kroke verb (to catch with a hook)
skru verb (soccer: to swerve a ball)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

krok noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
hekte verb (to make addicted)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

hekte verb (to make addicted)

Occitan

1 entries

croquet noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Old High German

1 entries

krāpho noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Old Norse

2 entries

haki noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
krókr noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

قانجه noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
قلاب noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
چنگل noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
قانجهلامق verb (to catch with a hook)

Persian

4 entries

هوک name (surname)
آکج noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
جا لباسی noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
قلاب noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Polabian

1 entries

oťai noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Polish

3 entries

hak noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
kotwiczka noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
sierpowy noun (type of boxing punch)

Portuguese

4 entries

gancho noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
gancho noun (catchy musical phrase)
gancho noun (type of boxing punch)
volta noun (loop shaped like a hook under certain letters)

Romanian

3 entries

cârlig noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
agăța verb (to attach a hook to)
agăța verb (to catch with a hook)

Russian

4 entries

гак noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
крюк noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
крючо́к noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
крючо́к noun (loop shaped like a hook under certain letters)

Sanskrit

1 entries

अङ्क noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Scots

1 entries

heuk noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries

cromag noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
dubhan noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
glac verb (to catch with a hook)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

kròšē noun (type of boxing punch)
kȕka noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
кро̀ше̄ noun (type of boxing punch)
ку̏ка noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Sikkimese

1 entries

ལྕགས་སྐྱུ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Slovak

1 entries

hák noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Slovene

1 entries

kljuka noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Southern Altai

2 entries

илмек noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ыргак noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Spanish

4 entries

corvo noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
gancho noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
gancho noun (catchy musical phrase)
gancho noun (type of boxing punch)

Swedish

4 entries

böj noun (loop shaped like a hook under certain letters)
hake noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
hook noun (golf shot that curves unintentionally)
krok noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Tagalog

1 entries

bungkalo noun (hook bones)

Tajik

1 entries

чангак noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Tamil

2 entries

கொக்கி noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
கொளுவி noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Telugu

2 entries

కొక్కి noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
గాలము noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Thai

3 entries

ตะขอ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
หมัดเหวี่ยงสั้น noun (type of boxing punch)
เบ็ด noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Tibetan

1 entries

ལྕགས་ཀྱུ noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

hukim verb (to catch with a hook)

Turkish

3 entries

kanca noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
kroşe noun (type of boxing punch)
çengel noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Turkmen

1 entries

çeňňek noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Tày

1 entries

bết noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Ukrainian

4 entries

га́чок noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
гак noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
па́стка noun (snare, trap)
хук noun (software feature)

Urdu

2 entries

آنکڑا noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ہک noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Uyghur

2 entries

ئىلمەك noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ئىلگەك noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Uzbek

2 entries

ilgak noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
ilmoq noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Vietnamese

1 entries

móc noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Welsh

2 entries

bach noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
bachyn noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Yiddish

2 entries

האָקן noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
קרוק noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Zazaki

2 entries

qance noun (rod bent into a curved shape)
çengal noun (rod bent into a curved shape)

Sample sentences

49 total sentences available.

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Hang your coat on the hook.

Source: tatoeba (21245)

I got several bites, but could not hook a fish.

Source: tatoeba (24667)

Hang your jacket on the hook by the door.

Source: tatoeba (39078)

Let me off the hook this time, please.

Source: tatoeba (241980)

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