hook

1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

A shop of all the qualities, that man

Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing,

He is not handling this job, so we're giving him the hook.

The hook of Good Boys, Hollywood's latest odyssey of comic adolescent mischief, is that the kids behaving badly are, for once, truly kids.

The song's hook snared me.

We've added hooks to allow undefined message types to be handled with custom code.

Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.

Common diacritics in Slavonic language are the hook ˇ (as in haček – Czech for ‘hook’) and the stroke ´ (robić – Polish for ‘do/make’).

He threw a hook in the dirt.

However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.

The heavyweight delivered a few powerful hooks that staggered his opponent.

I was talkin' to a couple of the 'hooks' (female prostitutes) I know.

He preceded me to Dartmoor, where I found his fame even more loudly trumpeted than ever, especially by Manchester “hooks” (pickpockets), who boast of being the rivals of the “Cocks,” or Londoners, in the art of obtaining other people's property without paying for it.

This maneuver involves a sharp turn, back into the hook of the wave.