A hook is a tool consisting of a length of material, typically metal, that contains a portion that is curved/bent back or has a deeply grooved indentation...
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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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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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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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Hooks may refer to: United States Hooks, Alabama, an unincorporated community Hooks, Texas, a city Hooks Island, an island, New York Hooks (surname) Hooks...
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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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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 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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uppercut or right hook. The hook is a powerful punch with knockout power. Variations of the hook are the shovel hook or upper-hook; they are body punches...
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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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American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Hook (often stylized as HOOK). He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is...
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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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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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In telephony, on-hook and off-hook are two states of a communication circuit. On subscriber telephones the states are produced by placing the handset...
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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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A 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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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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may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The palatal hook (◌̡) is a type of hook diacritic formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old...
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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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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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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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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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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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Sandy Hook is a barrier spit in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The barrier spit, approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) in length...
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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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of the Hook refers to several engagements during the Korean War. They were: First Battle of the Hook, in October 1952 Second Battle of the Hook, in November...
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A hook echo is a pendant or hook-shaped weather radar signature as part of some supercell thunderstorms. It is found in the lower portions of a storm as...
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A narrative hook (or just hook) is a literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that they will keep on reading...
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Hook Head (Irish: Rinn Duáin), historically called Rindowan, is a headland in County Wexford, Ireland, on the east side of the estuary of The Three Sisters...
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