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Crocked is British slang for injured.Crocked is American and Canadian slang for drunk.
Corked is British slang for drunk, intoxicated. Corked is British slang for constipated.
Uneven, bent, lopsided. e.g. "You think you put the fence up straight, but crikey I reckon it looks as crooked as a dog's hind leg"
A phrase applied to anything very crooked; and figuratively to persons of a stubborn temperament.
a cranky person (he was very crooked this morning)
Dogs is slang for the feet.
Something done wrong. Something wrecked or having been mangled in some manner. It is a variation of describing something as being wrecked (cooked). Circa early 1970's, perhaps 1960's.
Cooked is British slang for intoxicated, drunk.
Clocked has two quite separate meanings.
Doss is slang for a place to sleep in such as a bed and also to sleep. Doss is British slang for an unpleasant person.
Gronked is computer slang for dysfunctional.
Croaker is British slang for a doctor who prescribes for addicts.
Hooked is slang for addicted.
Pessimist, doomsayer. "Don't be such an old croaker."
Noun. 1. A sexually unattractive person. Derog. 2. A foot, usually in plural as dogs and often heard used in the expression my dogs are barking. See 'dogs are barking'. Verb. To play truant. Also doggin' it. [Scottish use]
Spooked is slang for frightened, nervy.
Jenny Lind is London Cockney rhyming slang for wind.
Dislike, despise or scorn. e.g. "I feel crooked on myself for the way I've treated you, forgive me"
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In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.
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Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
v. t.
To make crooked.
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Formed with, or having, a bend or crank; as, a cranked axle.
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Crooked.
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Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
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In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
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of Crook
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Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
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Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
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Having crooked legs.
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Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building.
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having acquired an unpleasant taste from the cork; as, a bottle of wine is corked.
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Crooked.
v. t.
To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
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False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
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Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
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A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
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To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
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A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
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