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rook   (TTS Sound)

The noun rook has 2 senses

• castle, rook -- ((chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard)


• rook, Corvus frugilegus -- (common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow)

The verb rook has 1 sense

• victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con -- (deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change")