To Hook
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (UK, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.