| 单词 | hook |
| 释义 | Word Frequency hook(hʊk) noun 1. a piece of material, usually metal, curved or bent and used to suspend, catch, hold, or pull something 2. short for fish-hook 3. a trap or snare 4. mainly US something that attracts or is intended to be an attraction 5. something resembling a hook in design or use 6. a. a sharp bend or angle in a geological formation, esp a river b. a sharply curved spit of land 7. boxing a short swinging blow delivered from the side with the elbow bent 8. cricket a shot in which the ball is hit square on the leg side with the bat held horizontally 9. golf a shot that causes the ball to swerve sharply from right to left 10. surfing the top of a breaking wave 11. Also called: hookcheck ice hockey the act of hooking an opposing player 12. music a stroke added to the stem of a written or printed note to indicate time values shorter than a crotchet 13. a catchy musical phrase in a pop song 14. another name for a sickle 15. a nautical word for anchor 16. by hook or crook 17. get the hook 18. hook, line, and sinker 19. off the hook 20. on one's own hook 21. on the hook 22. sling one's hook verb 23. (often foll by up) to fasten or be fastened with or as if with a hook or hooks 24. (transitive) to catch (something, such as a fish) on a hook 25. to curve like or into the shape of a hook 26. (transitive) (of bulls, elks, etc) to catch or gore with the horns 27. (transitive) to make (a rug) by hooking yarn through a stiff fabric backing with a special instrument 28. (transitive; often foll by down) to cut (grass or herbage) with a sickle to hook down weeds 29. boxing to hit (an opponent) with a hook 30. ice hockey to impede (an opposing player) by catching hold of him or her with the stick 31. golf to play (a ball) with a hook 32. rugby to obtain and pass (the ball) backwards from a scrum to a member of one's team, using the feet 33. cricket to play (a ball) with a hook 34. (transitive) informal to trick 35. (transitive) a slang word for steal 36. hook it Derived forms hookless (ˈhookless) adjective hooklike (ˈhookˌlike) adjective Word origin Old English hōc; related to Middle Dutch hōk, Old Norse haki |
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