give the hook
给钩子,给钩,放钩,给予勾引
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Definitions
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- : a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
- : a fishhook.
- : anything that catches; snare; trap.
- : something that attracts attention or serves as an enticement: The product is good but we need a sales hook to get people to buy it.
- : something having a sharp curve, bend, or angle at one end, as a mark or symbol.
- : a sharp curve or angle in the length or course of anything.
- : a curved arm of land jutting into the water; a curved peninsula: Sandy Hook.
- : a recurved and pointed organ or appendage of an animal or plant.
- : a small curved catch inserted into a loop to form a clothes fastener.
- : Sports. the path described by a ball, as in baseball, bowling, or golf, that curves in a direction opposite to the throwing hand or to the side of the ball from which it was struck.a ball describing such a path.
- : Boxing. a short, circular punch delivered with the elbow bent.
- : Music. Also called flag, pennant. a stroke or line attached to the stem of eighth notes, sixteenth notes, etc.an appealing melodic phrase, orchestral ornament, refrain, etc., often important to a popular song's commercial success.
- : Metalworking. an accidental short bend formed in a piece of bar stock during rolling.
- : hooks, Slang. hands or fingers: Get your hooks off that cake!
- : Underworld Slang. a pickpocket.
- : Also called deck hook .Nautical. a triangular plate or knee that binds together the stringers and plating at each end of a vessel.
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- : to seize, fasten, suspend from, pierce, or catch hold of and draw with or as if with a hook.
- : to catch with a fishhook.
- : Slang. to steal or seize by stealth.
- : Informal. to catch or trick by artifice; snare.
- : to catch on the horns or attack with the horns.
- : to catch hold of and draw through cloth with or as if with a hook.
- : to make in this fashion.
- : Sports. to hit or throw so that a hook results.
- : Boxing. to deliver a hook with: The champion hooked a right to his opponent's jaw.
- : Rugby. to push backward with the foot in scrummage from the front line.
- : to make hook-shaped; crook.
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- : to become attached or fastened by or as if by a hook.
- : to curve or bend like a hook.
- : Sports. to hook the ball. to describe a hook in course.
- : Slang. to depart hastily: We'd better hook for home.
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- : hook up, to fasten with a hook or hooks.to assemble or connect, as the components of a machine: to hook up a stereo system.to connect to a central source, as of power or water: The house hasn't been hooked up to the city's water system yet.Informal.to join, meet, or become associated with: He never had a decent job until he hooked up with this company.Informal.to have casual sex or a romantic date without a long-term commitment: He doesn't know her very well, but he hooked up with her a couple of times.Slang.to supply something scarce or illicit to: My supply of painkillers is totally dry—do you know somebody who can hook me up?The concert is sold out, but my sister knows a guy in the band, so we’re hoping she can hook us up with some tickets.
Phrases
- hook or crook
- hook up
- by hook or crook
- off the hook
- on one's own account (hook)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The package comes with everything you’ll need to hook it up and keep your kitchen clean every night.
Burglar alarms could even be hooked up to phones, he continues.
In a press release Julio D’Arcy, who led the study, said 50 bricks hooked up to a solar panel could provide emergency lighting for 5 hours.
So if you want to make people open the entire post, you need to use the first two lines to write a captivating hook.
If city leaders make a misstep, ratepayers could be on the hook in the future.
“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
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.
When you met him on Tinder were you initially thinking of this as a hook-up or a relationship?
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.
The sailors tried to catch some with a hook and line, and were fortunate enough to succeed.
The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.
It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.