hooked

hooked  (hkt)

adj.

1. Bent or angled like a hook.

2. Having a hook.

3. Made by hooking yarn: a hooked rug.

4. Slang

a. Captivated by or devoted to a custom or thing: She's really hooked on gardening.

b. Addicted to a narcotic.

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hooked·ness (hkd-ns) n.

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hooked [hʊkt]

adj

1. bent like a hook

2. having a hook or hooks

3. caught or trapped

4. a slang word for married

5. Slang addicted to a drug

6. (often foll by on) obsessed (with)

hookedness  [ˈhʊkɪdnɪs] n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	hooked - curved down like an eagle's beak     aquiline crooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
	2.	hooked - addicted to a drug drug-addicted, strung-out, dependant, dependent addicted - compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming; "she is addicted to chocolate"; "addicted to cocaine"
	3.	hooked - having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold); "hooklike thorns"; hooklike curved, curving - having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard"

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hooked

adjective

1. bent, curved, beaked, aquiline, beaky, hook-shaped, hamate (rare), hooklike, falcate (Biology), unciform (Anatomy, etc.), uncinate (Biology) He was tall and thin, with a hooked nose.

2. (Informal) obsessed, addicted, taken, devoted, turned on (slang), enamoured Open this book and read a few pages and you will be hooked.

3. (Informal) addicted, dependent, using (informal), having a habit He spent a number of years hooked on cocaine, heroin and alcohol.

Translations

hooked [hʊkt] ADJ

1. (= having a hook) → ganchudo

2. (= addicted) to be hooked on sth → estar enganchado a algo, ser adicto a algo
to be hooked on drugs → estar enganchado a las drogas, ser adicto a las drogas
to get hooked on sth → volverse adicto a algo

hooked [ˈhʊkt] adj

[nose] → crochu(e)

(= captivated) [person] → fasciné(e)

(= addicted) → accro inv
to be hooked on sth [+ drug, alcohol] → être accro à qch > (fig) [+ hobby, television] → être accro à qch >

hooked

adj

(= hook-shaped) → gebogen; hooked beak/nose → Hakenschnabel m → /-nase f

(= equipped with hooks) → mit Haken versehen