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hook

noun as in curved fastener

verb as in grab, catch

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The genus name uncus means “hook” in Latin, after the fishhooklike squiggles on the rock left by the fossils.

In just the first three months of the fiscal year, the city is on the hook for more than $47 million to resolve lawsuits and claims for injuries and other incidents on public property.

The team called the new animal Uncus, which means "hook" in Latin, noting in the paper its similarities to modern-day nematodes.

However, Ramirez got to work in the rounds that followed, landing some powerful shots and in the fourth round, connecting with a huge right hook that ended up cutting Billam-Smith over his left eye.

From BBC

“Short n’ Sweet” is brimming with hooks and jokes and vocal exaggerations; this show, the first of three sold-out dates in Los Angeles to wrap Carpenter’s North American tour, left virtually no surface un-bedazzled.

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

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