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hooker

/hook-er/US // ˈhʊk ər //UK // (ˈhʊkə) //

妓女,钩子,钩手,嫖客

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that hooks.
    • : Slang. prostitute.
    • : Slang. a large drink of liquor.
    • : Slang. a concealed problem, flaw, or drawback; a catch.
    • : Rugby. a player who hooks the ball in the front line of scrummage.
    • : Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an Amish Mennonite.

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Examples

  • He turned a young girl into a hooker—and then enlisted his mother to cover up the evidence.

  • “Expat bankers are definitely into the drugs/hooker scene, and Wan Chai is the very epicenter,” he told The Daily Beast.

  • The one in Atlantic City with the cop and the hooker and the crazy guy and so forth.

  • Vincent teaches young Oliver how to fight bullies, how to gamble, what a hooker is––you know, the important things in life.

  • Surely some of it came from the anger a hooker might rightly feel toward a john.

  • Hooker says he wounded him with a knife, but if that happened it was more probably the act of some kerne.

  • Sumner and Hooker were to use those opposite the town, and Franklin those at Bernard's.

  • (p. 185) Lee followed, intending to give battle, but he found Hooker in a position of such strength that he hesitated.

  • There were frequent rains, which prevented any movement during the winter; but General Hooker was not idle.

  • It was generally believed in Hooker's army that Lee, finding the position too impregnable, was retiring.