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sky·hook

 (skī′ho͝ok′)
n.
1. Any of various aircraft or schemes for lifting and transporting heavy objects from a position in the air or in space, usually by means of a long cable.
2. Informal Something that is depended on despite seeming impossible or rationally inexplicable: "We should not look for skyhooks, but only for toeholds" (Richard Rorty).
3. Basketball A hook shot that is released so high it is nearly impossible to block.
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skyhook

(ˈskaɪˌhʊk)
n
1. (Aeronautics) aeronautics a hook used to lift objects into the air from an aircraft or aerial cableway
2. (Mountaineering) mountaineering a hook that provides a hold on small protrusions or slippery surfaces
3. (Extreme Sports) parachuting a hook for extracting a reserve parachute
4. (Extreme Sports) a hook used as a releasable fastener for a skateboard
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sky•hook

(ˈskaɪˌhʊk)

n.
1. a fanciful hook imagined to be suspended in the air.
2. any of various lifting devices, as one hung from a helicopter, for hoisting heavy loads over a distance.
[1910–15]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.skyhook - helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects
eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird, chopper - an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
2.skyhook - a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky
hook - a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
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Translations
Skyhook
avaruuskoukku
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No, not the namby-pamby jump hook everyone today uses the full-blown sweeping sky hook.
Older usages include 'dollypeg', the old wooden instrument with legs used to churn the washing, from 'peggy', a rhyme with 'meggie', a Lancashire dialect term for 'centipede.' .' Simpler examples are: 'Royal Liver', for a 'fiver', and 'sky hook', for 'look.'.
Insitu's ScanEagle and Integrator--the commercial version of the Blackjack--deploy from a pneumatic launcher and are captured on a sky hook, Williamson said.
His career total points of 38,387 is the highest ever scored by a player in the NBA, and his patented 'sky hook' remains as one of the most iconic shots in all of basketball.
Freeze them out, send them off on a long journey to find a sky hook or tartan paint.
We've all heard the numerous stories about fresh behind the ears apprentices being sent for tins of tartan paint or a long stand, a bucket of steam, a left-handed screwdriver or a sky hook.
Some framing guns have factory-installed rafter hooks, but you can still upgrade your favorite framer with a Sky Hook from Gunook Products.
NBA star Kobe Bryant, whose height is about eight-tenths of a mile, would have an unstoppable sky hook. Golfing great Tiger Woods, more than a mile tall, might have difficulty kneeling to line up putts.
1 overall pick in the 1979 draft, the Lakers hoped to meld the stoicism and efficiency of Abdul-Jabbar, who at 7 feet 2 inches, had developed an unstoppable offensive weapon in his sky hook, with the swagger and flash of the young man nicknamed "Magic" because of his no-look passes am court flair.
Lakers fans finally got their revenge in 1985 when Magic Johnson's sky hook helped the Lakers beat the Celtics for the first time.
"So I reminded them about Kareem and the sky hook," Mink said.
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