Phrase Hound found 84 phrases and 58 compound words that contain hooks. The most common are listed below. Open hooks in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 84
- hooks and eyesplural of hook and eye: A matched hook and an eye (loop into which the hook can fit), used for fastening.
- off the hooksUnhinged; disturbed; disordered.
- bill-hooksplural of bill-hook: A spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
- brush hooksplural of brush hook: A heavy, hooked blade affixed to a long handle (like an axe), with one or both edges sharpened.
- fish hooksplural of fish hook: Alternative form of fishhook (a hook used in fishing)
- fishing hooksplural of fishing hook: A (generally barbed) sharp curved implement used to catch fish using a line.
- heel hooksplural of heel hook: A joint lock where the attacker isolates an opponent's leg between his or her own legs, and then twists the opponent's ankle with the aim of causing pain or injury to the opponent's ankle or knee.
- hooks upthird-person singular simple present indicative of hook up: To hook something together.
- meat hooksplural of meat hook: A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.
- pot-hooksplural of pot-hook: An S-shaped iron hook used to suspend a cooking pot over a fire.
- crochet hooksplural of crochet hook: A needle with a small hook at one end, used to make crochetwork (a type of hand-knitted textile).
- grappling hooksplural of grappling hook: A type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target (e.g. rigging of an enemy ship) for the purpose of catching hold of it.
- tenter hooksplural of tenter hook: One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.
- drop off the hooksTo die.
- crooked as a barrel of fish hooksVery unscrupulous and deceptive.
- biscuit hooksThe hands.
- dropped off the hookssimple past and past participle of drop off the hooks
- dropping off the hookspresent participle and gerund of drop off the hooks
- Aberdeen hooksplural of Aberdeen hook: A simple J-shaped hook used in fishing.
- bench hooksplural of bench hook: A device used on a woodworking bench to hold a workpiece in place
- bid hooksplural of bid hook: A small boathook.
- boat-hooksplural of boat-hook (alternative spelling of boathooks).
- cabin hooksplural of cabin hook: A short metal rod that ends in a hook, used as a latch to keep a door or window closed
- can hooksplural of can hook: A hoisting device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.
- cant hooksplural of cant hook: A traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook at one end, used for handling and moving logs.
Compound words 58
- hooksianOf or relating to bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952), American feminist author and social activist.
- fishhooksplural of fishhook: A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.
- HooksettA town and census-designated place therein, in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.
- hookshotAlternative form of hook shot: A shot in which the offensive player gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head.
- armhooksplural of armhook: A hook-like projection on the arm of a cephalopod, such as on the armhook squid (Gonatus fabricii).
- baithooksplural of baithook: A hook that can be baited.
- bathooksplural of bathook: A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
- beadhooksplural of beadhook: A kind of boathook.
- bidhooksplural of bidhook: A kind of boathook.
- billhooksplural of billhook: A medieval polearm, fitted to a long handle, sometimes with an L-shaped tine or a spike protruding from the side or the end of the blade for tackling the opponent; a bill.