HOOKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hooked mean? 

• HOOKED (adjective)
  The adjective HOOKED has 3 senses:

1. curved down like an eagle's beak

2. addicted to a drug

3. having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)

  Familiarity information: HOOKED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Curved down like an eagle's beak

Synonyms:

aquiline; hooked

Similar:

crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Addicted to a drug

Synonyms:

dependant; dependent; drug-addicted; hooked; strung-out

Similar:

addicted (compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)

Synonyms:

hooked; hooklike

Context example:

hooklike thorns

Similar:

curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)

 Context examples 

Martin hooked with his left, landing on the pivoting man with the weight of his body behind the blow.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I then stept over the building very conveniently from one stool to the other, and drew up the first after me with a hooked stick.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Both tackles were hooked in a trice, and the three men, deftly timing the roll, made a simultaneous leap aboard the schooner.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was a tall, handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a suit of grey flannel, with a Panama hat, a bristling black beard, and a great, aggressive hooked nose, and flourishing a cane as he walked.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Cutter was in a hurry and said 'No', rather crossly, so she was going away, looking hungry and sorry, when Mr. Laurence hooked up a big fish with the crooked end of his cane and held it out to her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They climbed high trees as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When the fresh irons proved too hot, they hooked them on iron rods and dipped them into cold water.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As a preliminary to another journey to his bunk, he hooked Wolf Larsen’s buttonhole with a greasy forefinger and vacuously proclaimed and reiterated, I got money, I got money, I tell yer, an’ I’m a gentleman’s son.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Joe ran the tiler, a machine wherein a hot iron was hooked on a steel string which furnished the pressure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We gave her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her forehead and hooked her back into her dress and half an hour later when we walked out of the room the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)