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Hooked   /hʊkt/   Listen
Hooked

adjective
1.
Curved down like an eagle's beak.  Synonym: aquiline.
2.
Addicted to a drug.  Synonyms: dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, strung-out.
3.
Having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold).  Synonym: hooklike.


Hook

verb
(past & past part. hooked; pres. part. hooking)
1.
Fasten with a hook.
2.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.  Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge.
3.
Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.  Synonym: crochet.
4.
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.
5.
Take by theft.  Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve.
6.
Make off with belongings of others.  Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe.
7.
Hit with a hook.
8.
Catch with a hook.
9.
To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug).  Synonym: addict.
10.
Secure with the foot.
11.
Entice and trap.  Synonym: snare.
12.
Approach with an offer of sexual favors.  Synonyms: accost, solicit.  "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"



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"Hooked" Quotes from Famous Books



... wanted to meet with you to ask you if is true that you tear open your breast with your hooked bill, and feed your ...
— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton
... a hurry 'bout something," grunted Teddy. "Maybe they've hooked us on the wrong train, and we're bound ...
— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... at breakfast opposite his niece with a twinkle set in his eye like a cherry-clack in a tree, relishing beforehand her smiles, and blushes, and gratitude to him for having hooked and played his friend, so that now she had but to land him. "I'll just finish this delicious cup of coffee," thought he, "and then I'll tell you, my lady." While he was slowly sipping said cup, Lucy looked up ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... times again when Lilly would bare her teeth and crunch them in a paroxysm of rage and tyranny over little Harry. She would delight in making herself terrible to him, pinch and tower over the huddle of him with her hands hooked inward like talons. His meekness hurt her to frenzy, and because she was ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... jeep Stan hooked a ride to the camp. He walked into operations and up to the desk. A major ...
— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery


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