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noun
- An addiction.
- excessive use of drugs
- An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
- A piece of clothing worn for a specific activity; a uniform.
- An action performed on a regular basis.
- (botany, mineralogy) Form of growth or general appearance and structure of a plant or crystal.
- A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
- the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal)
- attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire)
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order
- an established custom
verb
noun
- an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
- involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
- (electronics) The problems caused by the formation of this compound, including an increase in electrical resistance and formation of voids at the gold-aluminium junction, potentially culminating in total failure of the junction.
- (medicine) Tuberculosis, especially of the lungs.
- (chemistry, electronics) The white gold-aluminium intermetallic compound Au₅Al₂, which can be formed when gold and aluminium are heated in direct contact (for instance, at an electrical junction between gold and aluminium components).
adj
- addicted to a drug
- held from above and hanging down
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- Hanging down.
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
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noun
adj
noun
verb
noun
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- one who is playfully mischievous
verb
noun
- A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
- The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
- Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
- A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
- (computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.
- (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
noun
- a habit-forming drug that is not addictive but its use may lead to the use of other addictive drugs
- (by extension, figurative) Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to a deeper involvement.
- (idiomatic) A typically legal or less harmful substance, such as marijuana, whose use is statistically associated with an increased likelihood of progressing to a more dangerous or illicit drug.
noun
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
- (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to their creditor); a surrender to a master
- an abnormally strong craving
- A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.
- A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma.
- (medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
noun
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- An irresistible physical or psychological need, especially for a chemical substance.
- The state of being dependent, of relying upon another.
noun
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
- The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
- (psychology) The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.
verb
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
noun
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (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.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
noun
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- A drug addict.
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- A hippie.
- (African-American Vernacular) A wild dance.
- (informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.
- A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
- An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
- (dated outside certain expressions) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
- (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
- Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).
verb
- lose one's nerve
- (slang, ambitransitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
- (intransitive, slang) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
adj
noun
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- a whimsically eccentric person
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
verb
intj
noun
- (slang) An occasional drug habit, less than addiction.
- (Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
- (New Zealand) A potato chip.
- (UK, Ireland, informal) A fish-and-chip shop.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A carpenter.
- (demoscene, informal) A chiptune.
- (US) A chipping sparrow.
- (slang, Western US) A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
adj
verb
noun
- An addiction.
- excessive use of drugs
- An action performed repeatedly and automatically, usually without awareness.
- A piece of clothing worn for a specific activity; a uniform.
- An action performed on a regular basis.
- (botany, mineralogy) Form of growth or general appearance and structure of a plant or crystal.
- A long piece of clothing worn by monks and nuns.
- the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal)
- attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire)
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order
- an established custom
verb
noun
- an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug)
- involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body
- (electronics) The problems caused by the formation of this compound, including an increase in electrical resistance and formation of voids at the gold-aluminium junction, potentially culminating in total failure of the junction.
- (medicine) Tuberculosis, especially of the lungs.
- (chemistry, electronics) The white gold-aluminium intermetallic compound Au₅Al₂, which can be formed when gold and aluminium are heated in direct contact (for instance, at an electrical junction between gold and aluminium components).
noun
adj
noun
verb
noun
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- one who is playfully mischievous
verb
noun
- A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
- The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
- Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
- A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
- (computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.
- (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
noun
- a habit-forming drug that is not addictive but its use may lead to the use of other addictive drugs
- (by extension, figurative) Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to a deeper involvement.
- (idiomatic) A typically legal or less harmful substance, such as marijuana, whose use is statistically associated with an increased likelihood of progressing to a more dangerous or illicit drug.
noun
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
- (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to their creditor); a surrender to a master
- an abnormally strong craving
- A pathological relationship to mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences.
- A habit or practice that damages, jeopardizes or shortens one's life but when ceased causes trauma.
- (medicine) A state that is characterized by compulsive drug use or compulsive engagement in rewarding behavior, despite negative consequences.
noun
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- An irresistible physical or psychological need, especially for a chemical substance.
- The state of being dependent, of relying upon another.
noun
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
- The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
- (psychology) The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.
noun
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- A drug addict.
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- A hippie.
- (African-American Vernacular) A wild dance.
- (informal, sometimes endearing) A very sexually perverse individual.
- A man, particularly a bold, strong, vigorous man.
- An enthusiast, or person who has an obsession with, or extreme knowledge of, something.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) A fellow; a petulant young man.
- (dated outside certain expressions) Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
- (bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.
- Euphemistic form of fuck (“smallest amount of concern or consideration”).
verb
- lose one's nerve
- (slang, ambitransitive) To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug, (especially) to experience reality withdrawal, or hallucinations (nightmarish), to behave irrational or unconventional due to drug use.
- (intransitive, slang) To react extremely or irrationally, usually under distress or discomposure.
adj
noun
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- a whimsically eccentric person
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
verb
intj
noun
- (slang) An occasional drug habit, less than addiction.
- (Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
- (New Zealand) A potato chip.
- (UK, Ireland, informal) A fish-and-chip shop.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A carpenter.
- (demoscene, informal) A chiptune.
- (US) A chipping sparrow.
- (slang, Western US) A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
adj
verb
noun
verb
verb
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
noun
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (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.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
adj
- addicted to a drug
- held from above and hanging down
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- Hanging down.
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.