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One way or other, by any expedient. "It can't be done by hook or crook.â€
Peter Cook was 's London Cockney rhyming slang for book.
Captain Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for book. Captain Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Absent onself from school with no viable excuse. Used in the phrase "going on the hook.
On the hook is slang for waiting. On the hook is slang for in a dangerous or difficult situation.
Hoon is Australian slang for a lout, hooligan or disreputable youth. Hoon was Australian slang for a pimp.
Rookery nook is London Cockney rhyming slang for a book.
A chicken. e.g. "Did you cook that chook for tucker mum?"
Book. I've read the new fish by Deighton.
Cook is slang for to happen.Cook is slang for to prepare drugs by heating.
Butcher's hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Kook is American slang for an eccentric or crazy person.
To do any way possible.
The ship's anchor. eg. "We pulled into the bay and dropped the hook for the night."
Joe Hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for book. Joe Hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for crook.
Docker's hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Thomas Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
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a.
Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
n.
Anything resembling a hood in form or use
a.
Provided with a hook or hooks.
v. t.
To express or manifest by a look.
n.
The book used by a prompter of a theater.
v. t.
To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
v. t.
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.
n.
The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
adv.
Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
a.
Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
v. i.
To bend; to curve as a hook.
v. t.
To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
v. t.
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
n.
A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
v. t.
To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
v. t.
To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
v. t.
To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
n.
Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.
n.
See Eccentric, and V-hook.
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