Hook Hʊk Hanging Fish Noun Bre Picture/Curtain/Coat Hang

• a picture/curtain/coat hook
• a fish hook
• hang your towel on the hook.
• the key was hanging from a hook.

hook

1. a curved piece of metal, plastic or wire for hanging things on, catching fish with, etc.
• a picture/curtain/coat hook
• a fish hook
• Hang your towel on the hook.
• The key was hanging from a hook.
• Your coat’s hanging on a hook behind the door.
2. a short hard blow that is made with the elbow bent
• a left hook to the jaw
3. a way of hitting the ball so that it curves sideways instead of going straight ahead
• See related entries: Cricket
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/cricket/hook_2
4. a thing that is used to make people interested in something
• See related entries: Showing interest
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/showing_interest/hook_4
• The images are used as a hook to get children interested in science.
• Well-chosen quotations can serve as a hook to catch the reader’s interest.
5. using any method you can, even a dishonest one
6. to free yourself or somebody else from a difficult situation or a punishment
7. completely
• What I said was not true, but he fell for it (= believed it) hook, line and sinker.
8. if you leave or take the telephone off the hook, you take the receiver (= the part that you pick up) off the place where it usually rests, so that nobody can call you
• See related entries: Making calls
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/making_calls/hook_1
9. to ring many times
• The phone has been ringing off the hook with offers of help.
10. to go away

Word Origin

• Old English hōc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoek ‘corner, angle, projecting piece of land’, also to German Haken ‘hook’.