hooked

4 definitions found

hooked - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hook \Hook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Hooking.]
     1. To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize,
        capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or
        baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice;
        to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
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              Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice. --W.
                                                    Collins.
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     2. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle
        in attacking enemies; to gore.
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     3. To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
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     To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
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  Hooked \Hooked\, a.
     1. Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill
        of a bird.
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     2. Provided with a hook or hooks. "The hooked chariot."
        --Milton.
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hooked - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hooked
      adj 1: curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: aquiline,
             hooked]
      2: addicted to a drug [syn: dependent, dependant, drug-   addicted
         , hooked, strung-out]
      3: having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to
         grasp and hold); "hooklike thorns"; [syn: hooklike,
         hooked]

hooked - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "hooked":
     Roman-nosed, V-shaped, Y-shaped, absorbed in, addicted,
     addicted to, akimbo, angular, aquiline, aquiline-nosed, beak-nosed,
     beak-shaped, beaked, bent, bill-like, bill-shaped, billed,
     caught up in, clawlike, cornered, crookbilled, crooked, crooknosed,
     crotched, dependent, dependent on, down-curving, enmeshed in,
     entangled in, far-gone, forked, furcal, furcate, geniculate,
     geniculated, habituated, habitue, hamate, hamiform, hamulate,
     hooked on, hooklike, immersed in, implicated in, in a rut,
     involved in, jagged, knee-shaped, never free from, parrot-nosed,
     pointed, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, saw-toothed, sawtooth,
     serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, spaced out, submerged in,
     tied up in, unciform, uncinate, unguiform, used to, wrapped up in,
     zigzag