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Definitions for hooked
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. aquiline, hookedadjective

    curved down like an eagle's beak

  2. dependent, dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-outadjective

    addicted to a drug

  3. hooklike, hookedadjective

    having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)

    "hooklike thorns";

Wiktionary

  1. hookedadjective

    Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.

    a hooked nose

  2. hookedadjective

    Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.

  3. Etymology: hook + -ed

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Hookedadjective

    Bent; curvated.

    Etymology: from hook.

    Gryps signifies eagle or vulture; from whence the epithet grypus, for an hooked or aquiline nose. Brown.

    Now thou threaten’st, with unjust decree,
    To seize the prize which I so dearly bought:
    Mean match to thine; for still above the rest,
    Thy hook’d rapacious hands usurp the best. Dryden.

    Caterpillars have claws and feet: the claws are hooked, to take the better hold in climbing from twig to twig, and hanging on the backsides of leaves. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. Sac.

Wikipedia

  1. Hooked

    Hooked is a song by American country music singer Dylan Scott. It was released in August 2017 from his self-titled album on Curb Records. The song was written by Lindsay Rimes, Seth Ennis, and Morgan Evans.

ChatGPT

  1. hooked

    Hooked generally refers to being addicted or completely absorbed in something to the point where one cannot stop or give it up. It can be used in many contexts, such as being hooked on a book, TV show, drug, game, or habit. "Hooked" suggests a strong attachment or fascination.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Hooked

    of Hook

  2. Hookedadjective

    having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird

  3. Hookedadjective

    provided with a hook or hooks

Wikidata

  1. Hooked

    Hooked is the ninth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, covering the period from July 1985 to June 1988. All articles in the book originally appeared in The New Yorker. She reviews more than 170 films giving rich praise to the work of directors and performers she admires - in this collection for example, Robert Altman,; Alan Rudolph - for his film Songwriter; Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Melanie Griffith, -; Lesley Ann Warren,; Steve Martin in Roxanne, -. And cool to what she regards as second rate, here for example, George Lucas; and the film Heartbreak Ridge - Her trademark witty style pervades the collection, - the telling use of metaphor -, - the jamming up of oppositions against each other to suggest the complexity of things -; - remarks with epigrammatic force, -; - the deft undercutting of a word or statement by the following word or statement -

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooked in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooked in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of hooked in a Sentence

  1. Joe Biden:

    Why are you so hooked on that ? You just want me to say the words so I sound like everybody else, i'm not everybody else -- I'm Joe Biden. I've always been who I am. I'm staying the way I am. He is encouraging white supremacists -- you can determine what that means.

  2. John Lennon:

    I’m a most religious fellow, i was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message.

  3. Secretary Powell:

    I did n’t have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line( sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers, i even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in State Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels.

  4. Jan Van den Bulck:

    The episode ends, a character may or may not have died, and we’re hooked.

  5. Kevin Feldis:

    This is the first time we have charged Clean Water Act crimes for an actual discharge of oil into the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) off the coast of Alaska, as detailed in the court documents, witnesses saw a sheen off the side of the vessel after the chief engineer hooked up a pump to illegally dump oily bilge water overboard.

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