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hooky, a.|ˈhʊkɪ|
[f. hook n.1 + -y.]
Having a hook or hooks; hook-shaped; hooked.
1552Huloet, Hooky, or full of hookes, hamosus. 1611Cotgr., Racrocher,..to make of a hookie forme. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 687 Strato derided Democritus his Rough and Smooth, Crooked and Hooky Atoms, as meer Dreams and Dotages. 1855–9Singleton Virgil II. 171 Holding a hooky bill below his bust.
▸ colloq. Of (a passage in) a popular song: catchy, memorable. Cf. hook n.1 Additions.
1977Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 11 Nov. (Friday section) 11/2 ‘We Will Rock You’ is going to be a killer in concert due to Mercury's hot cappella vocals, the band's hooky chorus and Taylor's heavy back beat. 1983Washington Post 25 Aug. e9/4 The most promising cuts are the tightly coiled ‘Pieces of Ice’,..and the hooky ‘That's How You Start Over’. 1999D. Century Street Kingdom iii. 115 That's exactly what he'd need from him: something catchy, something hooky, something with international crossover pop appeal. 2004Metro (London ed.) 8 Nov. 21/2 It's amazing that Daniel Bedingfield's mind-boggling rise to stardom should have begun with a hooky little single produced in his bedroom.
▸ Brit. slang. Stolen, obtained illegally; counterfeit. Cf. bent adj. 5.
1982J. Sullivan Diamonds are for Heather in Only Fools & Horses: Bible of Peckham ii. 127 Del's gone and lumbered himself with two ton of hooky Persil! 1992R. Graef Living Dangerously ii. 65 He still wheels and deals, you know what I mean? But he don't go out thieving. He buys the odd hooky thing now and again. 1995Guardian 20 Apr. 15 The Underside approached a stall selling hookey watches in the company of a New Zealander, who startled the stallholders by declaring that he had bought a ‘Rolex’ from them some time ago. 2000M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze (2001) vii. 80, I ain't giving it you. You'll only take it down the Roman Road like it was the usual hooky gear. |