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hooked

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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.

hooked·ness (hkd-ns) n.

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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.hookedhooked - curved down like an eagle's beak    
crooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
2.hooked - addicted to a drug
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";
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"

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 sthestar enganchado a algo, ser adicto a algo
to be hooked on drugsestar enganchado a las drogas, ser adicto a las drogas
to get hooked on sthvolverse 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/noseHakenschnabel m/-nase f
(= equipped with hooks)mit Haken versehen


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P-, in charge of the deck, hooked on to the windward mizzen rigging in a state of perfect serenity; myself, the third mate, also hooked on somewhere to windward of the slanting poop, in a state of the utmost preparedness to jump at the very first hint of some sort of order, but otherwise in a perfectly acquiescent state of mind.
In front came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, and with a hooked nose.
Joe ran the tiler, a machine wherein a hot iron was hooked on a steel string which furnished the pressure.
 
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