fishhook
- n a sharp barbed hook for catching fish
- ON the last day of his quest, George McGovern hurtled across the country in a fishhook pattern: New York City, Philadelphia, Wichita, Kans.
- At the same time last week that the Communist Party Line reacted to the Russo-German war by curling up like a fishhook to head in the opposite direction (see p.
- SOUTHEAST ASIA A Fishhook Hypothesis? Hardly anyone talks about the dom ino theory any more.