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cant hook

/kant-hook/US // ˈkænt ˌhʊk //

钩不住,勾不起,勾不住,钩住不放

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wooden lever with a movable iron hook and a blunt, often toothed tip near the lower end, used chiefly for grasping and canting, or turning over logs.

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  • “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

  • Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

  • If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.

  • But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.

  • They “hook up” in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.

  • Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.

  • His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.

  • But I cant stay here all day; Mrs. Towne is to take me to spend the day with the Gesners.

  • The sailors tried to catch some with a hook and line, and were fortunate enough to succeed.

  • I didnt think much of that, but he said afterward, A man may do in an hour what he cant undo in a lifetime.