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

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. hookedadjective

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

   a hooked nose

   Etymology: hook + -ed

2. hookedadjective

   Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.

   Etymology: hook + -ed

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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

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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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1. Alex

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Richard Windsor:

   Most users are already completely hooked on Google services. They are going to download the apps anyway.

2. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta:

   You lure your users by giving something free, and once they've got hooked onto it, you gradually start increasing the prices, it's the classic way all kinds of monopolies work across the globe.

3. Captain Dave Bender:

   We were trolling, about 70 miles from Manasquan Inlet, for Bluefin tuna, and we hooked a very nice fish, we did n’t see Captain Dave Bender, but we could n’t gain much on Captain Dave Bender.

4. Andrew Cuomo:

   It is undeniable that vaping companies are deliberately using flavors like bubblegum, Captain Crunch and cotton candy to get young people hooked on e-cigarettes - it's a public health crisis and it ends today.

5. Grant Woods:

   This is something that we've seen across the country from the most educated, most sophisticated patient to the least, and we're talking a matter of days not a matter of weeks or months or years. They knew—certainly should have known—that they were going to leave in their wake devastation across this country. Some believe prescription painkiller makers should have known how highly addictive their products were. (Reuters) Woods is helping Ohio sue several prescription painkiller manufacturers and is consulting with several others on their upcoming litigation against the same companies. The basis for their litigation is nearly identical to the strategy used by states against Big Tobacco in the 1990s. Both manufactured a product they allegedly knew to be highly addictive but downplayed the risk to the public. Once hooked, states bore the treatment cost of the resulting public health epidemic. INDIANA MAN KILLS DOCTOR WHO REFUSED TO PRESCRIBE WIFE OPIOIDS I think the responsibility goes to the doctors, goes to the medical rep, goes to the pharmaceutical companies, said Dr. Howard Samuels, founder of The Hills addiction treatment center in Los Angeles. Fox News spoke to several patients at Samuels’ in-patient facility. All of them told a similar story of receiving a painkiller prescription from their physician for anywhere from 60 to 120 pills of powerful opioids like Oxycontin, Vicodin or Norco. The cause of their pain ranged from an auto accident to a broken ankle. My back – I crushed the bottom three vertebrae, then they prescribed me Oxycontin, said a former high school football player from Ohio. A woman from New Jersey added, I was getting 120 oxy a month. When I told him my pain persisted after a few hours, he upped by dosage. Another patient started on Vicodin, but got so addicted he would buy any type of opioid he could find. The White House Office for National Drug Control Policy says 80 percent of heroin users today started their addiction when doctors prescribed pain killers. (Reuters) A doctor is the best drug dealer you can ever get, said the native Angeleno. Once he knew I had the cash I could get anything. My first prescription was $300, and about $150 a week after that. And when one pharmacy started to get suspicious, he told me where to go. TRUMP'S OPIOID COMMISSION CAN HELP KEEP DEADLY DRUGS OUT OF AMERICA While there is plenty of blame to go around, the 25 lawsuits already filed share similar allegations: - Deceptive ads suggesting opioids were effective treating chronic pain like back injuries; - marketing that downplayed the risk of addiction; - undisclosed use of paid doctors to promote the benefits of opioids - use of front groups to.

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