Synonyms for hooked
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hoo kt |
| Phonetic Transcription : hÊŠkt |
Définition of hooked
Origin :- Old English hoced, "shaped like a hook, crooked, curved;" past participle adj. from hook (v.). From mid-14c. as "having hooks;" 1610s as "caught on a hook;" 1925 as "addicted," originally in reference to narcotics. hooked rug is recorded from 1880.
- adj addicted
- The window was wide open, and the wooden shutters were hooked back.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
- Then I found it had an iron hook and was hooked down tight to the garden.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- I said I didn't know; but when he wasn't looking I hooked it.
- Extract from : « Tom Sawyer, Detective » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- For a moment Thad could see great, hooked fangs in that jaw.
- Extract from : « Salvage in Space » by John Stewart Williamson
- Peters clubbed Tremont's foot from the tank rack he had hooked with the toe.
- Extract from : « Satellite System » by Horace Brown Fyfe
- He must have hooked his missus's stocking with all the savings gained at very hard work.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- The rudder is hooked to this by means of two hooks called pintles.
- Extract from : « Boys' Book of Model Boats » by Raymond Francis Yates
- He slung the air-tanks over his shoulder and hooked them to the suit.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- Those ships have been put out in orbit, where we're hooked on to one of them.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- Try the back door; that's the most liable to be only bolted and hooked.
- Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
Words or expressions associated with your search
- all shook up
- bait hook
- bait the hook
- baits hook
- be on tenterhooks
- billhook
- by hook or crook
- cant hook
- Captain Hook
- captain hooks
- cast one's hook
- gat hooked
- gat off the hook
- get hooked
- get hooks into
- get off the hook
- gets hook
- gets off hook
- gets off the hook
- hook
- hook and ladder
- hook ball
- hook on
- hook up with
- hookah
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- hooked up
- hooker
- hookey player
- hooky
- let off hook
- let off the hook
- letted the hook
- letting the hook
- mud hook
- off the hook
- on tenterhooks
- on the hook
- play hooky
- shook up
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