It's just too pathetic that this henpecked husband ended up hooking up with a wallflower.
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Hooking
/ˈhʊkɪŋ/
Synonyms for "hooking" (32 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (16)
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17 entriesapi hookingautomatic hookingbarbed hookcircle hookelectrical hookinghooking cablehooking ropehooking salmonhooking troutleft hooklive bait hookmanual hookingopening lineprovocative premiseright hookstartling claim
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Collocations
11 entriesattention grabbing hookhooking a ballhooking devicehooking fishhooking into apihooking into systemhooking mechanismhooking ropehooking upnarrative hookopening hook
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
5 entriesSample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Mary took up rug hooking.
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Sami regretted hooking up with those guys.
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Pacific leatherbacks face significant threats from entanglement and/or hooking in fisheries (bycatch), direct harvest - including eggs and adults - coastal development, pollution, marine debris, disease and climate change.
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