| billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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| buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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| fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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| hook | (noun) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | - |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hooking |
| (noun) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket | Synonyms: hook shot |
| (noun) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something | - |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: claw |
| (noun) a catch for locking a door | - |
| (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener |
| (noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: crotchet |
| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, solicit |
| (verb) entice and trap | Synonyms: snare |
| (verb) secure with the foot | - |
| (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: addict |
| (verb) fasten with a hook | - |
| (verb) catch with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit with a hook | - |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left | - |
| (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| hooked | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, strung-out |
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| (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: aquiline |
| (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooklike |
| hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| (noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hooklike | (adjective) having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold) | Synonyms: hooked |
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| hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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| hooks | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: maulers, meat hooks |
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| hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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| (noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
| hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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| (noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
| hooky | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: truancy |
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| pothook | (noun) an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire | - |
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| ravehook | (noun) a hooked hand tool used to prepare the seams of a boat for oakum | - |
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| shook | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | - |
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| skyhook | (noun) a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky | - |
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| (noun) helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects | - |
| tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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| unhook | (verb) take off a hook | - |
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