Synonym: bend, criminal, curve, gangster, hook, lawbreaker, thief. Similar words: brook, room, roof, crop, proof, troop, droop, cross. Meaning: [krʊk] 
n. 1. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime 2. a circular segment of a curve 3. a long staff with one end being hook shaped. v. bend or cause to bend.
n. 1. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime 2. a circular segment of a curve 3. a long staff with one end being hook shaped. v. bend or cause to bend. 
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121. As you know, the end justifies the means, so you should carry it out by hook or by crook.
122. Otto was tucked into the crook of her elbow, listening adoringly as she read from the newspaper.
123. I hope you aren't a no - good ruffian or crook.
124. Mr. Darlin: I say they are. Captain Crook, Peter Pirate!
125. I don't care if it is by hook or crook just as long as you find him.
126. Don't worry, I will get you the education fee by hook or crook.
127. By hook or by crook, we'll get this job done.
128. The main characteristics of the development of embryo sac in this species are that synergids without crook are abounded in filiform apparatus and there is no eminent vacuole in central cell.
129. To let: rooms, flats, houses, caravan. Contact Swindle and Crook Co Ltd.