Definitions for crook
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crooknoun

   a bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure

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

2. Crooknoun

   any implement having a bent or crooked end

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

3. Crooknoun

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

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

4. Crooknoun

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

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

5. Crooknoun

   a pothook

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

6. Crooknoun

   an artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge

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

7. Crooknoun

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

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

8. Crooknoun

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

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

9. Crooknoun

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

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

10. Crooknoun

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

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

11. Crookverb

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

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

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. CROOK

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

Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crook

   the hook or recurved tip of the antenna in Hesperidae.

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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. Charley Reese:

   If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.

2. Paul Chambers:

   It is likely that in the aftermath of next week's election, Thailand's military establishment will, by hook or by crook, win a coalition majority, but only with the help of junta-appointed senators, the use of crony senators to win would also make Prayut's electoral victory illegitimate in the eyes of most Thai people.

3. Anuj Somany:

   Crook and crafty authority rules at a place where stupidity prevails because of the majority of people being selfish or fools.

4. Anuj Somany:

   Crook and crafty animals like Wolf , Jackal, Fox, Hyena get ill mostly on holidays and weekends, nobody sees them taking pill and yet virus effect on them gets nil within a week only and then they all appear to thrill and chill on hill.

5. Anuj Somany:

   People can't and don't change their basic character because a crook person on being exposed either goes in hibernation for some time or just changes the mask of the face to behave as if s/he has now a good nature.

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