hooked
hookt
- v fasten with a hook
- v rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- v make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- v hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- v take by theft
- v make off with belongings of others
- v hit with a hook
His opponent hooked him badly - v catch with a hook
- v to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- v secure with the foot
- v entice and trap
- v approach with an offer of sexual favors
- s curved down like an eagle's beak
- s addicted to a drug
- s having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold);
- He hooked us on football as show biz and gave Sunday (and Monday) a new kind of religious significance.
- In recent months, work has begun on initiatives to connect countries in eastern and southern Africa the only major populated regions not hooked up to the global broadband .
- For a species wired for survival, we have an odd habit of getting hooked on things that can kill us.