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A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of hooks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dade County, Georgia.
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
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A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Pulaski County, Missouri.
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A number of places in the United States:
Two townships in Nebraska, in Dixon County and Gage County.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Ohio.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Texas County, Oklahoma.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Turner County, South Dakota.
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noun
One who, or that which, hooks.
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noun
A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
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Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, rugby, sports
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noun
A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.
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Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A crocheter.
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noun
Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, informal
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Synonyms: hook
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noun
A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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noun
A prostitute.
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Usage: US, slang
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noun
An imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, slang
Qualifier: 1920s to 1940s
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noun
Alternative spelling of hookah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A small fishing boat.
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Synonyms: Galway, Galway hooker
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noun
Any antiquated craft.
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Usage: derogatory, slang
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
(rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot
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Broader terms: athlete, jock
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a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers)
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Broader terms: golfer, golf player, linksman
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a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: streetwalker, street girl, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern
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Broader terms: prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, bawd, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the street
noun
English theologian (1554-1600)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Richard Hooker
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Broader terms: theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser
noun
United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe Hooker
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Broader terms: general, full general
History
Etymology tree English hook Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English hooker From hook (verb) + -er.
Unknown. The "prostitute" sense is the subject of a folk etymology connecting it to General Hooker of the American Civil War, but the earliest known use dates to 1835, decades before the war. Less implausibly, it has also been connected to a coastal feature called a hook (“A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey, Red Hook in New York”) in the ports of New York and Baltimore. Carefully learned inference is not conclusive. See this essay, pp 105ff.
From Dutch hoeker, an alteration of Middle Dutch hoecboot, from hoec + boot.
Across languages
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