Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

Verb

Adjective

The word "crook" can be used as noun, proper noun, verb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

case store doctor evidence ducking police salt mine

Derived Terms

Crook County Crook of Devon acrook apple crook arm in crook by hook or by crook by hook or crook crook as Rookwood crook in the lot crook of the arm crook one's elbow crookback crookbacked crookbill crooked crookery crookle crookneck cruckle cybercrook knee-crooking on the crook pool at the crook throw-crook uncrook

Etymologically Related To

crooked

Context

australia music new zealand slang

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

bend curve curved shape flex principal staff

Type Of (IsA)

staff

Manner Of

bend

Related Terms

crook and nanny

Related Terms

angry annoyed artifice bend bent colorado contrivance county durham criminal cumbria curl curvature curve england flexure genuflection gibbet ill jail lock logan county missouri osage county pothook robber shepherd sick south lakeland staff standard thief trick turn upset usa

Synonym Network

bend criminal

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.