Synonyms:
hooker
Meaning: (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot
Synonyms:
hooker
Meaning: a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers)
Synonyms:
streetwalker, street_girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern
Meaning: a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
Synonyms:
Hooker, Richard_Hooker
Meaning: English theologian (1554-1600)
Synonyms:
Hooker, Joseph_Hooker, Fighting_Joe_Hooker
Meaning: United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
Usage examples
"Well, say, Hooker," exclaimed Phil, "you're all right!
Any one approaching the vessel's moorings would have recognized a Biscayan hooker.
These measured strokes have worked away the creek where the Biscay hooker was moored.
At noon that day Roy Hooker returned to school, bringing a written excuse from his mother.
The cedar of Lebanon, said Sir Joseph Hooker, occurs upon one of the moraines of an ancient glacier.
Roger Eliot lingered to speak a word to Hooker, and Springer, still unnoticed, plainly heard what he said.
For several days he lingered, hearing how Lee beat Hooker, in detail, and forced him back across the river.
At the close of the game there was another boy on the field who was quite as glum and downcast as Hooker himself.
"But they wouldn't if it hadn't been for----" Choking, as he realized what he had so nearly said, Hooker bit his tongue.
For a while it seemed as if the whole army would be swept off; but Hooker and his subordinates exerted every effort to restore order.