on the hook
上钩,上钩了,上钩后,上钩的
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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.
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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
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.
I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.