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hook

noun as in curved fastener

verb as in grab, catch

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The package comes with everything you’ll need to hook it up and keep your kitchen clean every night.

Burglar alarms could even be hooked up to phones, he continues.

From Fortune

In a press release Julio D’Arcy, who led the study, said 50 bricks hooked up to a solar panel could provide emergency lighting for 5 hours.

So if you want to make people open the entire post, you need to use the first two lines to write a captivating hook.

If city leaders make a misstep, ratepayers could be on the hook in the future.

“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.

But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.

They “hook up” in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman.

When you met him on Tinder were you initially thinking of this as a hook-up or a relationship?

Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.

His face was hidden beneath a beard of bristling, bushy red, and he had a sharp hook nose and small, bright eyes.

The sailors tried to catch some with a hook and line, and were fortunate enough to succeed.

The launch was already under way, and young Cargill trying to avoid it better, thrust with his boat-hook at the side of the lock.

It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.

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On this page you'll find 166 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hook, such as: curve, angle, catch, clasp, crook, and grapnel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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