Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hooked
IPA transcription: [h'ʊkt]
Pronunciations of hooked
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: aquiline, hooked
    Meaning: curved down like an eagle's beak
  • Synonyms: dependent, dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out
    Meaning: addicted to a drug
Usage examples
  • What looked like a piece of green vine was hooked over one shoulder.
  • She was frightfully thin, and her nose, which was more hooked than a parrot's beak, shone like a danger signal.
  • I never supposed she'd want them--they're so old-fashioned, and nobody seems to want anything but hooked mats now.
  • A society of beasts is a collection of atoms, round, hooked, cubical, or triangular, but always perfectly identical.
  • He'd pried loose one of the wires that hooked to the transformer, and short-circuited it, not knowing, of course, just what he was doing.
  • A dog crossing the hunter's path spoiled his day, unless he instantly hooked his little fingers together, and pulled till the animal disappeared.
  • Nothing else mattered--neither the frightening force of the knees that thudded into his body nor the hooked fingers that reached for his eyes to tear them out.
  • I hooked myself instead of the fish, tangled my line in every tree, lost my bait, broke my rod, until I gave up the attempt in despair, and passed the day under the trees reading old Izaak, satisfied that it was his fascinating vein of honest simplicity and rural feeling that had bewitched me, and not the passion for angling.
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