transcription, транскрипция: [ hʊk ]
( hooks, hooking, hooked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A hook is a bent piece of metal or plastic that is used for catching or holding things, or for hanging things up.
One of his jackets hung from a hook.
...curtain hooks...
N-COUNT
2.
If you hook one thing to another, you attach it there using a hook. If something hooks somewhere, it can be hooked there.
Paul hooked his tractor to the car and pulled it to safety.
...one of those can openers that hooked onto the wall.
VERB : V n to/onto n , V onto n , also V n prep , V prep
3.
If you hook your arm, leg, or foot round an object, you place it like a hook round the object in order to move it or hold it.
She latched on to his arm, hooking her other arm around a tree...
VERB : V n prep
4.
If you hook a fish, you catch it with a hook on the end of a line.
At the first cast I hooked a huge fish.
VERB : V n
5.
A hook is a short sharp blow with your fist that you make with your elbow bent, usually in a boxing match.
Lewis desperately needs to keep clear of Ruddock’s big left hook.
N-COUNT : usu adj N
6.
If you are hooked into something, or hook into something, you get involved with it. ( mainly AM )
I’m guessing again now because I’m not hooked into the political circles...
Eager to hook into a career but can’t find one right for you?
VERB : be/get V-ed into n , V into n
7.
If you hook into the Internet, you make a connection with the Internet on a particular occasion so that you can use it.
...an interactive media tent where people will be able to hook into the internet.
VERB : V into n
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Hook up means the same as hook .
...a UK firm that lets Britons hook up to the Internet.
PHRASAL VERB : V P to n
8.
If someone gets off the hook or is let off the hook , they manage to get out of the awkward or unpleasant situation that they are in. ( INFORMAL )
His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
PHRASE : V inflects
9.
If you take a phone off the hook , you take the receiver off the part that it normally rests on, so that the phone will not ring.
PHRASE : PHR after v
10.
If your phone is ringing off the hook , so many people are trying to telephone you that it is ringing constantly. ( AM )
Since war broke out, the phones at donation centers have been ringing off the hook.
PHRASE : V inflects
11.
by hook or by crook: see crook
hook, line, and sinker: see sinker