hook

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

hook UK US [hʊk] noun countable [ hooks ]
 
DEVICE

1. <A > a curved device used for catching or holding things, especially one fixed to a surface for hanging things on
• a coat/picture hook
• a boat hook
• a fish hook
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Thesaurus⁺: ↑Pins, clips, hooks and pegs
 
• We'll have to screw a hook into the wall.
• Could you put some hooks in the garden shed, for us to hang the tools on?
 
HIT
2. a way of hitting in boxing, cricket or golf
• a right/left hook
• a hook shot
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Thesaurus⁺: ↑Boxing ↑Cricket ↑General terms used in ball sports ↑Golf
Idioms: by hook or by crook ▪ fall for something hook, line and sinker ▪ get your hooks into somebody ▪ off the hook
 
verb
 
DEVICE

1. transitive to fasten something with a hook, hang something on a hook, or catch something with a hook
• He hooked the trailer (= joined it with a hook) to his car.
• How many salmon did you hook (= catch) this afternoon?
• She hooked the shoe (= lifted it with a hook) out of the water.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Connecting and combining ↑Variety and mixtures ↑Mixing and mixtures
 
SEX

2. intransitive US informal to have sex for money
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Sexual devices and the sex industry
Phrasal Verb: hook up to something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hook shot, draw, hooking, claw, bait, come-on, lure, sweetener, crotchet, solicit, accost, snare, addict, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom, crochet, overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  undercharge, unhook