Definitions for crook
krʊkcrook

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. laksheish M Patel:

   SBICap securities have frozen their trading portal again today to not allow its customers to buy or sale their shares. Its team is crook and they daily do such things

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. Robyn Gershon:

   I notice a lot of people holding on the rails using their arms that are covered instead of their hands — like in the crook of the arm.

4. Anuj Somany:

   Many so-called celebrity who used to advising people to wear masks were themselves seen often partying and rallying without masks, yet masses could not realise that they are being fooled and how atrocity is being done by crook authority through mandate vaccination on ordinary population. Such is the high level of stupidity in our society

5. Richard Weeks:

   If things are crook at Muswellbrook and there’s no work at Bourke what do you do? If things are crook at Tallarook and there’s no work at Bourke what do you do! ?

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