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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hooks, meat hooks, maulersnoun

    large strong hand (as of a fighter)

    "wait till I get my hooks on him"

ChatGPT

  1. hooks

    Hooks are a type of fastening device that are typically curved or angled and used to catch, hold or pull objects. In programming, hooks refer to functions or routines that allow the customization or modification of the system or application behavior by intercepting function or method calls, events, or messages. In music, a hook is a catchy melody or phrase that makes a song memorable.

Wikidata

  1. Hooks

    Hooks is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,769 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. hooks

    Pieces of bent iron fixed to the transom plates of a field-carriage are so called. They serve to fix the bricoles or ropes for drawing it occasionally backwards or forwards.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HOOKS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hooks is ranked #2125 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Hooks surname appeared 17,053 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 6 would have the surname Hooks.

    48.7% or 8,318 total occurrences were White.
    45.3% or 7,727 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 488 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.3% or 399 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.3% or 63 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 56 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooks in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of hooks in a Sentence

  1. Paige Nichols:

    If you want to keep it minimal, you’ve got to reduce the chaos inside your bag, there are tons of packing cubes on the market, but [some] have nifty hooks that let you hang them up directly, saving time and keeping you extra-organized. I’ve been known to use spare dust bags to achieve a similar effect in a pinch, but once you get the real deal, there’s no going back.

  2. Andrew Hyland:

    Is it a step towards people quitting, or are the hooks of nicotine just getting deeper.

  3. Tim Phillips:

    After 4 years of hunting the St. Paul giant I finally was lucky enough to bag him. #Walter 39 pointer counting ring hooks. 32 points counting inch or more. ROUGH SCORE 243!

  4. Samantha Brown:

    There are hooks, like having to leave right now, but it's not just an ambush show.

  5. Derrick Keeny:

    I put hooks in the fish, and when I put hooks in the fish, it started tearing line off the reel.

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