hook

CEFRB2

/hʊk/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A curved piece used for catching, holding, or hanging things.

  2. 02

    verb

    To catch or attach something with a hook.

Examples

  • I got several bites, but could not hook a fish.

  • Hang your coat on the hook.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /huːk/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.

  2. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.

  3. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

More examples

In context

  • He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.

  • We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.

  • The song's hook snared me.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc (“angle, point, hook”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Cognates Cognate with Scots huke, huik (“hook”), West Frisian and Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk, German Hook (“small cluster of farms”), Faroese høkja (“crutch”), Icelandic hækja (“crutch”), Norn hek (“crutch”), Finnish kuokka (“hoe, mattock”). Related to hake.