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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. 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.

  2. Steve Milloy:

    Biden’s slam of Chinese President Xi and Russian President Putin for not showing up at COP26 is a sad indication of Biden’s failure to grasp or accept real-world realities, china wants to be the lone global superpower by 2049. Russia wants to get Europe hooked on its natural gas. So neither country has any interest in hamstringing its own economy with destructive climate regulations.

  3. Gustavo García-Siller:

    They were all hooked to machines and some intubated, so there was not a possibility of dialogue. My place was to pray, to think about their families. I spoke to some of them without receiving any reaction back but I knew that I was speaking to real persons in suffering and that God knows their hearts.

  4. 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.

  5. Snoop Dogg:

    The many long nights in the studio making hit after hit, coffee provided the fuel which kept us going. Today marks the launch of a new company I created along with my partner Michael, who introduced me to the best tasting Indonesian coffee, all it took was one sip and Snoop was hooked.

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