hooker

4 definitions found

hooker - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hooker \Hook"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, hooks.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Naut.)
        (a) A Dutch vessel with two masts.
        (b) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of
            Ireland.
        (c) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.
            [1913 Webster]

hooker - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Hooker
      n 1: United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at
           Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879) [syn:
           Hooker, Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe Hooker]
      2: English theologian (1554-1600) [syn: Hooker, Richard   Hooker
         ]
      3: a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
         [syn: streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler,
         floozy, floozie, slattern]
      4: a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed
         golfers)
      5: (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the
         scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot

hooker - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Hooker, OK (city, FIPS 36000)
    Location: 36.85991 N, 101.21196 W
    Population (1990): 1551 (742 housing units)
    Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

hooker - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "hooker":
     B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, argosy, bark, bawd, boat, bottom, bucket,
     call girl, craft, daughter of joy, drab, erring sister,
     fallen woman, fille, fille de joie, harlot, hulk, hull, hustler,
     keel, leviathan, meretrix, packet, painted woman, poule,
     prostitute, scarlet woman, ship, stew, streetwalker, tub,
     unfortunate woman, vessel, watercraft, white slave, whore