[hʊk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a piece of metal or other hard material curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on
(e.g: a picture hook)

- a thing designed to catch people's attention
(e.g: companies are looking for a sales hook)

- a curved cutting instrument, especially as used for reaping or shearing

- a short swinging punch made with the elbow bent and rigid, especially in boxing
(e.g: a perfectly timed right hook to the chin)

- a curved stroke in handwriting

- a curved promontory or sand spit


Phrases:
- by hook or by crook
- get one's hooks into
- get the hook
- give someone the hook
- hook it
- hook, line, and sinker
- off the hook
- on one's own hook
- on the hook for
- sling one's hook

Origin:
Old English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’

[hʊk], (Verb)

Definitions:
- attach or fasten with a hook or hooks
(e.g: the truck had a red lamp hooked to its tailgate)

- catch with a hook
(e.g: he hooked a 24 lb pike)

- attract and hold the attention of; captivate
(e.g: I was hooked by John's radical zeal)

- hit (the ball) round to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height; hit a ball delivered by (the bowler) with such a stroke

- secure (the ball) and pass it backwards with the foot in the scrum


Phrases:
- by hook or by crook
- get one's hooks into
- get the hook
- give someone the hook
- hook it
- hook, line, and sinker
- off the hook
- on one's own hook
- on the hook for
- sling one's hook

Origin:
Old English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’