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Hooking   /hˈʊkɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Hook  v. t.  (past & past part. hooked; pres. part. hooking)  
1.
To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout. "Hook him, my poor dear,... at any sacrifice."
2.
To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
3.
To steal. (Colloq. Eng. & U.S.)
To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.


Hook  v. i.  
1.
To bend; to curve as a hook.
2.
To move or go with a sudden turn; hence (Slang or Prov. Eng.), To make off; to clear out; often with it. "Duncan was wounded, and the escort hooked it."





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"Hooking" Quotes from Famous Books



... seated as he was in that slender car miles above the earth, and so numbed by the cold that he could not hold the ropes. He reached the valve-cord at last, however, and, seizing it between his teeth, gave it two or three vigorous jerks. The balloon stopped ascending. Hooking his numbed arms over the ring, he dropped safely into the car. As he did so, he noticed that the blue hand of the barometer stood perpendicular. The balloon had ceased to climb ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... chalky, spectral blotches amid the bright green of the hedgerows as was produced by the plaster statuettes. All that motley crew, enlivened by the journey, the unfamiliar fresh air, and the copious hospitality, as well as by the hope of hooking something in that procession of beys, nabobs, and other purse-bearers, asked nothing better than to caper and sing and make merry, with the vulgar enthusiasm of a crowd of Seine boatmen ashore on a lark. But Cardailhac did not propose to have it so. As soon as they had ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... bag and hat on the barrel of the Government revolver, hooking the one to its proper saddle-strap, and clapping on the other at an angle inimitably imitative of the ...
— Stingaree • E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
... but ride constantly a hunting, breed up good race-horses, sell places and offices to those of the courtiers that will give most for them, and find out new ways for invading of their people's property, and hooking in a larger revenue to their own exchequer; for the procurement whereof they will always have some pretended claim and title; that though it be manifest extortion, yet it may bear the show of law and justice: and then they daub over their oppression with a submissive, ...
— In Praise of Folly - Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts • Desiderius Erasmus
... right: For they might blab. I'd best be hooking it. I'll go: but, mind, you're not yet shot ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson


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