What does crook mean?

Definitions for crook
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactornoun

    someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

  2. bend, crook, twist, turnnoun

    a circular segment of a curve

    "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"

  3. crook, shepherd's crookverb

    a long staff with one end being hook shaped

  4. crook, curveverb

    bend or cause to bend

    "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CROOKnoun

    Etymology: croc, French.

    He left his crook, he left his flocks,
    And wand’ring through the lonely rocks,
    He nourish’d endless woe. Matthew Prior.

    There fall those saphire-colour’d brooks,
    Which, conduit like, with curious crooks,
    Sweet islands make in that sweet land. Philip Sidney, b. ii.

  2. To Crookverb

    Etymology: crocher, French.

    It is highly probable, that this disease proceeds from a redundant acidity, because vinegar will soften and crook tender bones. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

    Whatsoever affairs pass such a man’s hands, he crooketh them to his own ends; which must needs be often eccentrick to the ends of his master or state. Francis Bacon, Essay 24.

ChatGPT

  1. crook

    A crook is typically used to describe someone who is dishonest, involved in illegal activities, or thieves. It can also refer to a curved or bent shape, such as the shepherd's crook, a long staff with a curved top.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Crooknoun

    a bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure

  2. Crooknoun

    any implement having a bent or crooked end

  3. Crooknoun

    the staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep

  4. Crooknoun

    a bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff

  5. Crooknoun

    a pothook

  6. Crooknoun

    an artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge

  7. Crooknoun

    a small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key

  8. Crooknoun

    a person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc

  9. Crooknoun

    to turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve

  10. Crooknoun

    to turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist

  11. Crookverb

    to bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature

  12. Etymology: [OE. croken; cf. Sw. krka, Dan. krge. See Crook, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Crook

    Crook is a market town in County Durham, in the North East of England. It is situated about 10 miles south-west of Durham. Crook lies a couple of miles north of the River Wear, on the A690 from Durham. This turns into the A689 leading up into the scenic upper reaches of Weardale, through Wolsingham and Stanhope.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Crook

    krōōk, n. a bend, anything bent: a curved tube used to lower the pitch of a cornet, &c.: the bending of the body in reverence: a staff bent at the end, as a shepherd's or bishop's: an artifice or trick: (Spens.) gibbet.—v.t. to bend or form into a hook: to turn from the straight line or from what is right.—v.i. to bend or be bent.—n. Crook′back (Shak.), a hunchback.—adj. Crook′backed; Crook′ed, bent like a crook: not straight: deviating from rectitude, perverse.—adv. Crook′edly.—n. Crook′edness.—adjs. Crook′-kneed; Crook′-shoul′dered.—A crook in the lot, any trial in one's experience. [Prob. Scand.; cf. Ice. krókr, Dan. krog.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. CROOK

    One who exceeds the speed limit in Law & Order Ave. A Misfit in the Straight and Narrow Way.

Entomology

  1. Crook

    the hook or recurved tip of the antenna in Hesperidae.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CROOK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Crook is ranked #2484 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Crook surname appeared 14,526 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 5 would have the surname Crook.

    83.2% or 12,097 total occurrences were White.
    11.3% or 1,644 total occurrences were Black.
    2.1% or 312 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 250 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.8% or 128 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 94 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of crook in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of crook in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of crook in a Sentence

  1. Abu Serdanah:

    I have never been into a police station and have never made troubles. Now Im like a fugitive crook.

  2. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Keeping SBI Securities as brokerage firm but have almost stopped investing in share market after realizing that brokerage firm cheats traders and all brokers are equally corrupt and crook who take small brokerage from traders and big commission from companies for helping organizations to loot money of investors and traders. Since am unemployed so seeing stock market operation for time pass purpose only and updating own observation to protect people

  3. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Crook stock brokers had prior information that stock market will spurt up in the last 45 minutes of trading session therefore they had shut down their terminal function for that period so that traders can't make any profit. SBI securities had closed its server today

  4. Richard Milhous Nixon:

    People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

  5. Lakshheish M Patel:

    SBI securities trading terminal has gone whitewashed or blank at 11 am and it is a sign that market fall will take place now. Crook Brokers do it at the instruction of companies for their commission so that traders are not able to do transactions

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Translations for crook

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  • المحتالArabic
  • извивка, гега, извивам, крадецBulgarian
  • Hirtenstab, krümmen, Ganove, Krücke, Krummstab, GaunerGerman
  • γκλίτσαGreek
  • torcer, torcedura, doblez, ratero, ladrona, ladrón, curvidad, ratera, curva, truhán, enchuecar, truhana, cayado, curvar, doblarSpanish
  • käyräsauva, konna, koukistaa, taive, rikollinenFinnish
  • courber, arnaqueur, courbe, escroc, houletteFrench
  • crúcaIrish
  • maling, bajinganIndonesian
  • þorpari, glæpamaður, hirðingjastafurIcelandic
  • pastorale, furfante, ladro, truffatore, vincastroItalian
  • კაუჭი, კავიGeorgian
  • ವಂಚಕKannada
  • skurkNorwegian
  • afzetster, bedrieger, zwendelaarster, bedriegster, oplichtster, oplichter, afzetter, zwendelaarDutch
  • ladra, ladrãoPortuguese
  • вор, изгиб, сгибать, плутRussian
  • lopovSerbo-Croatian
  • lopovSlovene

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