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▪ I. hooker1|ˈhʊkə(r)|
[f. hook v. + -er1.]
One who or that which hooks.
1. A thief who snatched away articles with a hook; a pilferer, thief; (mod. slang) a watch-stealer.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 35 These hokers, or Angglers, be peryllous and most wicked knaues. 1592Greene Art Conny-catch. ii. 24 The Courber, which the common people call the Hooker..with a Curb..or hook, doth pul out of a window any loose linnen cloth, apparell, or els any other houshold stuffe. 1672Worthington in Mede's Wks. Life 42 The Hooker..once began to draw away his Bed-cloaths whiles he lay awake. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, No strange Abram, Ruffler crack—Hooker of another pack. 1888Tit Bits 17 Nov. 82/2 (Farmer) The hooker, having..got a hold of the desired prize, detaches it from the chain by breaking the ring and passes it to number two.
2. One who fastens his clothes with hooks: see quot.
1880Libr. Univ. Knowl. IX. 700 The Amish Mennonites..are sometimes called Hookers, because they substitute hooks for buttons on their clothes.
3. hooker-on (Coal-mining): A ‘hanger on’ or hitcher. Also simply hooker; and in many other technical usages.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 134/2 Hooker (to special trade when stated or determinable). Hooker (Undefined)..Factory Labourer. 1883Times 9 Nov., These men found the fire-beater acting as hooker-on for the uninjured men, who were brought up with great rapidity. 1900Westm. Gaz. 16 May 8/1 No one received injuries, the hookers having received warning by the clashing of the cage. 1919Camp Worker (Vancouver) 26 Apr. 5/2 The best hooker that ever gave signals for the high-rigger, while his short-handed crew changed the haul-back without the assistance of a grass-line. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §043 Onsetter;..hooker, hooker-at-shaft..; stands at bottom of shaft in coal or shale mine to push full tubs on to cage and remove empty ones. Ibid. §943 Hooker, cloth hooker, piece hooker, hooker-and-lapper. 1966H. Sheppard Dict. Railway Slang (ed. 2) 6 Hooker, shunter. 1967Amer. Speech XLII. 291 Hookers come and attach hooks on slings from the overhead cranes, or travelers, that move over the yard transferring loads between saws and stacks.
4. A prostitute. slang (chiefly U.S.).
1845in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 277 If he comes by way of Norfolk he will find any number of pretty Hookers in the Brick row not far from French's hotel. 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 45 Hooker, a prostitute. 1929T. Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel (1930) xxx. 435, I hope you have sense enough now to leave those old hookers alone? 1932J. Dos Passos 1919 43 Ain't you got the sense to tell a good girl from a hooker? 1952J. Steinbeck East of Eden xlv. 504 Joe could find any hooker in any town in a few hours. 1964Esquire Nov. 85/2 They were attractive but not very imaginative, they looked like hookers on horses. 1971[see hook v. 7 c].
5. A cow or ox that ‘hooks’ (see hook v. 11). U.S.
1866Harper's Mag. May 816/1 He..asked ‘Why that pipe [sc. a hookah] was like a cow?’ having in mind the obvious answer that it was a hooker. 1885‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mts. ii. 48 The red cow jes' hooked down the bars, bein' a turrible hooker. 1902G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant vii. 84 You want to..distinguish between a cow that's a kicker, but whose intentions are good..and a hooker, who is vicious on general principles.
6. a. Rugby Football. A player in the centre of the front row of the scrummage on either side who endeavours to obtain the ball by hooking it. Cf. hook v. 8 e.
1905Daily Chron. 13 Sept. 7/4 The two front men—called ‘hookers’—can get the ball just as well as three. 1906[see back a. 1]. 1927Wakefield & Marshall Rugger 166 Some hookers prefer to have the weight on the loose-head side. 1963Times 14 Jan. 3/1 Thorne had been on the fringe of this new honour as a hooker for several years, and Davis and Owen look a sound second row. 1971Times 15 Feb. 9/2 For a hooker Pullin often showed up well in the loose.
b. Cricket. One who uses the hook stroke.
1900W. J. Ford Cricketer on Cricket 102 Like Hill he is a splendid hooker. 1911P. F. Warner Bk. Cricket 208 He has a lovely shot over extra-cover's head,..and on a slow wicket is a fine puller and hooker. 1972Cricket World 1. 8/2 Keith [Stackpole] has long been regarded as only a puller, hooker and cutter but, last season, developed so much that he also drove strongly.
▪ II. hooker2|ˈhʊkə(r)|
Also howker, hawker.
[App. orig. a. Du. hoeker, in Hexham ‘hoecker-schip a dogger-boat’, in Kilian hoeck-boot ‘a fishing-boat, so called from hoeck hook’.]
1. A two-masted Dutch coasting or fishing vessel.
1641S. Smith Royal Fishings 4 A Hooker or Wellboat. 1781Westm. Mag. IX. 555 There were also two large Hookers, which I could not conveniently bring away. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 237 Howker, a vessel of burthen with two masts (main and mizen) used by the Dutch and Northern nations. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Howker, a two-masted Dutch vessel.
2. A one-masted fishing smack on the Irish coast and south-west of England, similar to a hoy in build. Also attrib.
1801Naval Chron. VI. 432 He was in a Cork hawker, which shipped a sea. 1807Sir R. C. Hoare Tour Irel. 84 The whole morning was spent on board Mr. Newenham's hooker. 1813Q. Rev. July 289 The cost of one of these hookers is from {pstlg}130 to {pstlg}150;..the mode of fishing is by the hook and line. 1884West. Morn. News 28 July 1/4 Hookers belonging to the Port of Plymouth. 1894Daily News 15 June 5/6 The number of hooker boats in Achill is very limited.
3. Applied depreciatively or fondly to a ship.
1823J. F. Cooper Pioneer xxiii, Where away did 'ee ever fall in with such a hooker? 1825Blackw. Mag. XVIII. 50/2 You've the easiest birth in the hooker. 1865Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 4/4 The voyage—fair or foul—has been made;..people shake hands with one another, giving the ‘old hooker’ a hearty cheer before they leave her. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hooker, or Howker... Also, Jack's name for his vessel, the favourite ‘old hooker’. 1883Century Mag. Oct. 945/1 The old hooker actually made two and a half knots, and answered her helm tolerably well.
Hence ˈhookerman.
1894Daily News 15 June 5/6 The hookerman should have lowered her sail before jibing.
▪ III. † hooker3 Obs.
(See quots.)
1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 30 Great stone pottes..such as the Golde finers call their Hookers. 1602― Delightes for Ladies Receipt iii, An earthen potte hauing a narrow mouth, and being well leaded within (the Refiners of gold and siluer, call these pottes hookers).
▪ IV. hooker4 dial. and N. Amer. colloq.|ˈhʊkə(r)|
[Orig. unknown.]
A glass of whisky, a dram; usu. with qualifying word (e.g. stiff), a drink (of brandy, etc.).
1833J. Kennedy Geordie Chalmers iv. 45 Ye'll be nane the waur o' a hooker after yer fricht. 1865W. H. L. Tester Poems 133 Sandy liket a hooker, an' brawlie I kent, The drap creatur' wad set him a speakin'. 1887Grip (Toronto) 21 May 12/2 We went in and were served out with a pretty stiff hooker each. 1906H. Green At Actor's Boarding House 62 A stiff hooker of whiskey, and then another had the expected effect. 1927Black Mask Feb. 37/1 It took a stiff hooker of whiskey and a lot of words to thaw her into understanding. 1930H. Craddock Savoy Cocktail Bk. i. 97 The Juice of 1 Lemon. 4 Hookers Whiskey. 1939C. Morley Kitty Foyle xxvii. 268 She gave me such a hooker of brandy I went right to sleep. 1955‘T. P. Kelley’ Black Donnellys 63 Danny was quiet enough until he got about six hookers under his belt.
▪ V. hooker
var. of hookah. |