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hooker
1[ hook-er ]
noun
- Slang. prostitute.
- Slang. a large drink of liquor.
- Slang. a concealed problem, flaw, or drawback; a catch.
- Rugby. a player who hooks the ball in the front line of scrummage.
- (initial capital letter) Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an Amish Mennonite.
hooker
2[ hook-er ]
noun
- Slang. any old-fashioned or clumsy vessel.
- any fishing vessel working with hooks and lines rather than nets.
Hooker
3[ hook-er ]
noun
- Joseph, 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- Richard, 1554?–1600, English author and clergyman.
- Thomas, 1586?–1647, English Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of the colony of Connecticut.
hooker
1/ ˈhʊkə /
noun
- a person or thing that hooks
- slang.
- a draught of alcoholic drink, esp of spirits
- a prostitute
- rugby the central forward in the front row of a scrum whose main job is to hook the ball
Hooker
2/ ˈhʊkə /
noun
- HookerJohn Lee19172001MUSMUSIC: blues singerMUSIC: guitarist John Lee. 1917–2001, US blues singer and guitarist
- HookerSir Joseph Dalton18171911MBritishSCIENCE: botanist Sir Joseph Dalton. 1817–1911, British botanist; director of Kew Gardens (1865–85)
- HookerRichard15541600MBritishRELIGION: theologian Richard. 1554–1600, British theologian, who influenced Anglican theology with The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593–97)
- HookerSir William Jackson17851865MBritishSCIENCE: botanist Sir William Jackson. 1785–1865, British botanist; first director of Kew Gardens: father of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
hooker
3/ ˈhʊkə /
noun
- a commercial fishing boat using hooks and lines instead of nets
- a sailing boat of the west of Ireland formerly used for cargo and now for pleasure sailing and racing
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hooker1
Word History and Origins
Origin of hooker1
Example Sentences
He turned a young girl into a hooker—and then enlisted his mother to cover up the evidence.
“Expat bankers are definitely into the drugs/hooker scene, and Wan Chai is the very epicenter,” he told The Daily Beast.
The one in Atlantic City with the cop and the hooker and the crazy guy and so forth.
Vincent teaches young Oliver how to fight bullies, how to gamble, what a hooker is––you know, the important things in life.
Surely some of it came from the anger a hooker might rightly feel toward a john.
Hooker says he wounded him with a knife, but if that happened it was more probably the act of some kerne.
Sumner and Hooker were to use those opposite the town, and Franklin those at Bernard's.
(p. 185) Lee followed, intending to give battle, but he found Hooker in a position of such strength that he hesitated.
There were frequent rains, which prevented any movement during the winter; but General Hooker was not idle.
It was generally believed in Hooker's army that Lee, finding the position too impregnable, was retiring.
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