Synonym: bind, catch, clasp, clip, crook, fasten, hanger, latch, snap, snare, trap, wire. Similar words: shoot, school, choose, shoot up, shooting, at school, in school, likelihood. Meaning: [hʊk] 
n. 1. a catch for locking a door 2. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook 3. anything that serves as an enticement 4. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something 5. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something 6. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer 7. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent 8. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket. v. 1. fasten with a hook 2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price 3. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle 4. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left 5. take by theft 6. make off with belongings of others 7. hit with a hook 8. catch with a hook 9. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) 10. secure with the foot 11. entice and trap 12. approach with an offer of sexual favors.
n. 1. a catch for locking a door 2. a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook 3. anything that serves as an enticement 4. a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something 5. a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something 6. a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer 7. a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent 8. a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket. v. 1. fasten with a hook 2. rip off; ask an unreasonable price 3. make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle 4. hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left 5. take by theft 6. make off with belongings of others 7. hit with a hook 8. catch with a hook 9. to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) 10. secure with the foot 11. entice and trap 12. approach with an offer of sexual favors. 
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(61) I couldn't get through because you'd left the phone off the hook.
(62) His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
(63) The phone has been ringing off the hook with offers of help.
(64) Just hook the bucket onto the rope and lower it down.
(65) I hope you can send a man to hook up my telephone soon.
(66) He left the phone off the hook as he didn't want to be disturbed.
(67) He counted on his friends to get him off the hook.
(68) She told him she needed the money for her baby and he fell for it hook, line and sinker.
(69) Don't worry — we'll have the money ready by 4 o 'clock, by hook or by crook.
(70) I'll get her to marry me, by hook or by crook.
(71) The hook in the ceiling had given way and the lamp had fallen blazing on to the table.
(72) The blacksmith forged a bar of iron into a hook.
(73) They have locked the carriages onto the engine with a special hook.
(74) A whole side of bacon was hanging from a hook on the ceiling.
(75) Do you think you can hook me up with some tickets for tonight?
(76) The police are going to get these guys(Sentence dictionary), by hook or by crook.
(77) I decided I was going to get that job by hook or by crook.
(78) Bad luck, I hope,won't hook on to me in two days.
(79) He had made me wretchedly conscious of my shortcomings; that is how he had me on the hook.
(80) He hangs up his scarf on the hook behind the door.
(81) What I said was not true, but he fell for it hook, line and sinker.
(82) Lewis desperately needs to keep clear of Ruddock's big left hook.
(83) I've been trying to phone him all day?he must have left his telephone off the hook.
(84) You must hook up with Mr. Ordway once you arrive there.
(85) I left the phone off the hook, so it wouldn't ring.
(86) John's agreed to go to the meeting in my place so that gets/lets me off the hook.
(87) Did you ever hook up with Maisy while you were there?
(88) Since war broke out[Sentencedict.com], the phones at donation centers have been ringing off the hook.
(89) He'd decided to make Sandra wait before letting her off the hook.
(90) hook, line and sinker.
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