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To Hook

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