The Hook, or the Hookman, is an urban legend about a killer with a pirate-like hook for a hand attacking a couple in a parked car. In many versions of...
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object. The hook's design allows traction forces to be relayed through the curved/indented portion to and from the proximal end of the hook, which is...
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In computer programming, the term hooking covers a range of techniques used to alter or augment the behaviour of an operating system, of applications,...
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(surname) Hooks (nickname) Corpus Christi Hooks, a minor league team in the Texas League The Hooks, a faction in the Hook and Cod Wars Hooks (album), by...
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Hook is a 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams...
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A hook is a punch in boxing. It is performed by turning the core muscles and back, thereby swinging the arm, which is bent at an angle near or at 90 degrees...
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Look up hookup in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hook-up has several meanings: Making a connection between components in a system An electrical connector...
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14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza,...
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Brian H. Hook (born 1968) is an American diplomat, lawyer and government official. In 2021, he joined Cerberus Capital Management as vice chairman for...
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hook is any hook normally used in butcheries to hang meat. This form of hook is a variation on the classic S hook. An S-shaped hook or jointed hook is...
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Look up off the hook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Off the Hook may refer to: Off the Hook (compilation album), in the Now That's What I Call Music...
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question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The palatal hook (◌̡) is a type of hook diacritic formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent...
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The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother...
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Peter Hook (born 13 February 1956) is an English musician, best known as the bassist and co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division and its successor...
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"Bring the Hook" is a song by American rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again, released on January 12, 2022 as the lead single from his mixtape Colors (2022)...
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Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which...
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Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show (shortened to Dr. Hook in 1975) is an American rock band formed in Union City, New Jersey. The band had commercial success...
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An anal hook or ass hook (North American informal) is a sex toy, often resembling a fish hook in appearance, intended for anal sexual penetration or other...
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"No Hook" is a hardcore hip hop song written and performed by American rappers Shaquille O'Neal, RZA and Method Man. It was released on February 6, 1995...
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A fish hook or fishhook, formerly also called an angle (from Old English angol and Proto-Germanic *angulaz), is a hook used to catch fish either by piercing...
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on-hook and off-hook are two states of a communication circuit. On subscriber telephones the states are produced by placing the handset onto or off the hookswitch...
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hook, line, and sinker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hook, line and sinker may refer to: Hook, line and sinker, an English-language idiom Hook,...
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Look up hook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hook is a tool with a curved end. Hook may also refer to: Hook#Variations for similar tools Hook hand...
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The hook sword, twin hooks, fu tao, hu tou gou (tiger head hook) or shuang gou (Chinese: 鈎 or 鉤; pinyin: Gōu) is a Chinese weapon traditionally associated...
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The cro-hook, is a special double-ended crochet hook used to make double-sided crochet. It employs the use of a long double-ended hook, which permits the...
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hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener...
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Peter Hook & The Light are an English post-punk band, formed in May 2010 by bassist and vocalist Peter Hook, formerly of the influential post-punk bands...
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The Hook Peninsula is a peninsula in County Wexford, Ireland. It has been a gateway to south-east Ireland for successive waves of invaders, including the...
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A grappling hook or grapnel is a device that typically has multiple hooks (known as claws or flukes) attached to a rope or cable; it is thrown, dropped...
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Hook and ladder may refer to: Hook-and-ladder truck, a firefighting apparatus Hook and ladder (chess), or deflection sacrifice, a chess tactic Hook and...
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