Definition of: hook

(hk) noun
1. A curved or bent piece serving to catch or hold another object.
2. A tool in hooked form; especially, a sickle.
3. Music The flag–shaped projection from the stem of an eighth note, or one of still shorter duration.
4. A hook–shaped part, as of a written character.
5. The act of hooking.
6. Something that catches or snares; a trap.
7. In golf, a shot in which the ball deviates to the side on which the player stands.
8. In baseball, a sharp–breaking curve.
9. In boxing, a short blow delivered in a swinging manner crosswise and with the elbow bent and rigid.
10. A bend in a river; a point of land; a cape: Sandy Hook. See synonyms under LOCK.
—by hook or by crook In one way or another.
—on one's own hook
1. By oneself.
2. On one's own authority.
—v.t.
1. To fasten, attach, or take hold of with or as with a hook.
2. To catch on or with a hook, as fish.
3. To trick; take in: I've been hooked.
4. To make or bend in the shape of a hook; crook.
5. To catch on or toss with the horns: said of bulls, etc.
6. To make, as a rug, by looping thread, yarn, etc., through burlap with a hook.
7. Slang To steal; pilfer.
8. In baseball, to throw (a ball) with a hook.
9. In boxing, to strike with a hook.
10. In golf, to drive (the ball) in a hook.
—v.i.
11. To curve like a hook; bend.
12. To be fastened with a hook.
—to hook up
1. To fasten or attach with hooks.
2. To put together, as the parts of a machine.
—to hook up to To connect (apparatus) to a source of power: The trailer was hooked up to the car.
—to hook up with Colloq. To join; become a companion or adherent of. [OE hōc]
HOOKS
a. Box hook.
b. Coat hook.
c. Eyehook.
d. Ice hook.
e. Boat hook.