hook
noun
/huːk/
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/hʉk/
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/hʊk/
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- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
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haak
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- (nautical, chiefly, historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
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stevenhaak
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hook
verb
/huːk/
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/hʉk/
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/hʊk/
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- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
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aan de haak slaan
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- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
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haken
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- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
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haken,
in elkaar haken
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- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
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in elkaar haken
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- (usually, in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
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verslaven
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hooked
adjective
/hʊkt/
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- Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.
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verslaafd
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