Search Result:hooked
Overview of verb hook
The verb hook has 12 senses
- hook -- (fasten with a hook)
- overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook -- (rip off; ask an unreasonable price)
- crochet, hook -- (make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day")
- hook -- (hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left)
- hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom -- (take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!")
- pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift -- (make off with belongings of others)
- hook -- (hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly")
- hook -- (catch with a hook; "hook a fish")
- addict, hook -- (to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug))
- hook -- (secure with the foot; "hook the ball")
- hook, snare -- (entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers")
- hook, solicit, accost -- (approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park")
Overview of adj hooked
The adj hooked has 3 senses
- aquiline, hooked -- (curved down like an eagle's beak)
- dependent, dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out -- (addicted to a drug)
- hooklike, hooked -- (having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold); "hooklike thorns";)