hooking
钩住,勾兑,钩子,钩挂
Related Words
Definitions
- 1
- : a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- : a fishhook.
- : anything that catches; snare; trap.
- : something that attracts attention or serves as an enticement: The product is good but we need a sales hook to get people to buy it.
- : something having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end, as a mark or symbol.
- : a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything.
- : a curved arm of land jutting into the water; a curved peninsula: Sandy Hook.
- : a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant.
- : a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener.
- : Sports. the path described by a ball, as in baseball, bowling, or golf, that curves in a direction opposite to the throwing hand or to the side of the ball from which it was struck.a ball describing such a path.
- : Boxing. a short, circular punch delivered with the elbow bent.
- : Music. Also called flag, pennant. a stroke or line attached to the stem of eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc.an appealing melodic phrase, orchestral ornament, refrain, etc., often important to a popular song's commercial success.
Phrases
- hook or crook
- hook up
- by hook or crook
- off the hook
- on one's own account (hook)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The package comes with everything you’ll need to hook it up and keep your kitchen clean every night.
Burglar alarms could even be hooked up to phones, he continues.
In a press release Julio D’Arcy, who led the study, said 50 bricks hooked up to a solar panel could provide emergency lighting for 5 hours.
So if you want to make people open the entire post, you need to use the first two lines to write a captivating hook.
If city leaders make a misstep, ratepayers could be on the hook in the future.
“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.
They “hook up” in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.
When you met him on Tinder were you initially thinking of this as a hook-up or a relationship?
Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.
His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.
The sailors tried to catch some with a hook and line, and were fortunate enough to succeed.
The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.
It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.