• Russian: хук (χuk)

• Danish: hook

• ttbc Albanian: grep
• ttbc Basque: amu, kako
• ttbc Catalan: ganxo
• ttbc Croatian: kuka
• ttbc Esperanto: hoko, krampo
• ttbc Ido: hoko
• ttbc Latin: hamus
• ttbc Sardinian: ganciu , amu
• ttbc Telugu: కొక్కెం (kokkeM)
• ttbc Tok Pisin: huk
• ttbc Turkish: kanca

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

1. To attach a hook to.

   Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.

2. To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

   He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.

3. To connect (hook into, hook together).

   If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.

4. hook up: To meet.

   You guys go ahead to the fair, and we'll hook up with you later.

5. hook up: To have sexual intercourse with.

   She got wasted at the party and ended up hooking up with her ex.

6. (Usually in passive) To make addicted (I'm hooked).

   He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.

7. In the context of "Cricket}} To play a hook shot.

Hook may refer to:

Tools, hardware and fasteners

• Cabin hook, a hooked bar that engages into an eye screw, used on doors
• Fish hook, a device used to catch fish
• Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target
• Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
• Siege hook, a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege
• Part of a hook-and-eye closure, a clothing fastener
• Part of a hook-and-loop fastener, used in Velcro

Media and entertainment

• Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
• "Hook" (song), a song by Blues Traveler
• Hook (film), a 1991 drama
  • Hook (video game), four video games based on the film
• Hook (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
• Hook (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
• The Hook, a classic urban legend
• The Hook (newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper
• Captain Hook, a fictional villain from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
• Get the hook, a theatrical term

Athletics

• Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
• Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
• Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
• Curveball, a type of baseball pitch
• A method of hitting a golf ball

Language

• Hook (rhetoric), a rhetorical device that "hooks" the listener
• Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark in the Vietnamese alphabet
• Narrative hook, a literary technique

Places

• Hook, New Zealand
• Hook River, New Zealand
• Hook of Holland, the Netherlands

United Kingdom

• Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Hook, Hart, in north Hampshire
• Hook, London
• Hook, Pembrokeshire
• Hook, Wiltshire
• Hook-with-Warsash, in south Hampshire

Other meanings

• Hooking, a computer programming technique
• Telephone hook, a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
• Prosthetic hook, a crude hand prosthesis
• Bondage hook, a device used in sexual bondage play
• Tailhook, a device on an aircraft
• Abu Hamza, a Sunni Muslim leader known as "Hook" in the British tabloid press
• Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter

See also

• Hook (surname)
• Hooked (disambiguation)

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