hook on

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

hook on - adopt; "take up new ideas" fasten on, seize on, take up, latch on sweep up, embrace, espouse, adopt - take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"

Translations

? hook on

vi → (an)gehakt werden (→ to an +acc); (with towbar) → angekoppelt or angehängt werden (→ to an +acc); (burrs etc) → sich festhaken (→ to an +dat)

vt sep → anhaken (→ to an +acc), → mit einem Haken befestigen (→ to an +dat); (with towbar) → ankoppeln, anhängen; to hook something onto something → etw an etw (acc) → (an)haken; the gliders were hooked on behind the towplane → die Segelflugzeuge waren hinten an das Schleppflugzeug angehängt or angekoppelt