crook

crook ¹

 (kro͝ok)

n.

1. An implement or tool, such as a bishop's crosier or a shepherd's staff, with a bent or curved part.

2. A part that is curved or bent like a hook.

3. A curve or bend; a turn: a crook in the path.

4. Informal One who makes a living by dishonest methods.

v. crooked, crook·ing, crooks

v.tr.

To make a crook in; bend: crooked an arm around the package.

v.intr.

To bend or curve.

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[Middle English crok, from Old Norse krōkr.]

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crook ²

 (kro͝ok)

adj. Australian

1. Out of order; faulty.

2. Not well; ill.

3. Of poor quality; inferior.

4. Not honest; crooked.

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[From crooked or crook.]

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crook

(krʊk)

n

1. a curved or hooked thing

2. a staff with a hooked end, such as a bishop's crosier or shepherd's staff

3. a turn or curve; bend

4. informal a dishonest person, esp a swindler or thief

5. the act or an instance of crooking or bending

6. (Instruments) Also called: shank a piece of tubing added to a brass instrument in order to obtain a lower harmonic series

vb

to bend or curve or cause to bend or curve

adj

7. informal

a. ill

b. of poor quality

c. unpleasant; bad

8. go crook go off crook informal Austral and NZ to lose one's temper

9. go crook at go crook on informal Austral and NZ to rebuke or upbraid

[C12: from Old Norse krokr hook; related to Swedish krok, Danish krog hook, Old High German krācho hooked tool]

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crook¹

(krʊk)

n.

1. a bent or curved implement, appendage, etc.; hook.

2. the hooked part of anything.

3. an instrument or implement having a bent or curved part, as a bishop's crosier.

4. a dishonest person, esp. a swindler or thief.

5. a bend or curve.

v.t.

6. to bend; curve: to crook one's finger.

v.i.

7. to bend; curve.

[1125–75; Middle English crok(e) < Old Norse krāka hook]

crook²

(krʊk)

adj. Australian.

1. sick; ill.

2. angry; ill-humored.

3. bad; out of order; unsatisfactory.

[1875–80; perhaps alter. of earlier cronk < Yiddish or German krank sick]

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crook

Past participle: crooked
Gerund: crooking

Imperative

crook

crook

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crook - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw accessary, accessory - someone who helps another person commit a crime arsonist, firebug, incendiary - a criminal who illegally sets fire to property blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist - a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them bootlegger, moonshiner - someone who makes or sells illegal liquor briber, suborner - someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter - a member of a conspiracy desperado, desperate criminal - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) fugitive from justice, fugitive - someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice gangster, mobster - a criminal who is a member of gang highbinder - a corrupt politician highjacker, hijacker - someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, goon, tough - an aggressive and violent young criminal gaolbird, jail bird, jailbird - a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher - someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) mafioso - a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States gangster's moll, gun moll, moll - the girlfriend of a gangster liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) principal - (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement parolee, probationer - someone released on probation or on parole drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher - an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs racketeer - someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater - someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) scofflaw - one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, runner, smuggler - someone who imports or exports without paying duties stealer, thief - a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it traitor, treasonist - someone who betrays his country by committing treason law offender, lawbreaker, violator - someone who violates the law
	2.	crook - a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" bend, turn, twist curve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes bight - a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
	3.	crook - a long staff with one end being hook shaped shepherd's crook staff - a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose; "he walked with the help of a wooden staff"
Verb	1.	crook - bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply" curve recurve - curve or bend (something) back or down bend, flex - form a curve; "The stick does not bend"

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crook

noun

1. (Informal) criminal, rogue, cheat, thief, shark, lag (slang), villain, robber, racketeer, fraudster, swindler, knave (archaic), grifter (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), chiseller (informal), skelm (S. African) The man is a crook and a liar.

2. angle, bend, bow, curve, fork, intersection, crotch She hid her face in the crook of her arm.

verb

1. bend, hook, angle, bow, curve, curl, cock, flex He crooked his finger at her and said, `Come here.'

adjective

1. (Austral. & N.Z. informal) ill, sick, poorly (informal), funny (informal), weak, ailing, queer, frail, feeble, unhealthy, seedy (informal), sickly, unwell, laid up (informal), queasy, infirm, out of sorts (informal), dicky (Brit. informal), nauseous, off-colour, under the weather (informal), at death's door, indisposed, peaky, on the sick list (informal), green about the gills He admitted to feeling a bit crook.

go (off) crook (Aust. & N.Z. informal) lose your temper, be furious, rage, go mad, lose it (informal), seethe, crack up (informal), see red (informal), lose the plot (informal), go ballistic (slang, chiefly U.S.), blow a fuse (slang, chiefly U.S.), fly off the handle (informal), be incandescent, go off the deep end (informal), throw a fit (informal), wig out (slang), go up the wall (slang), blow your top, lose your rag (slang), be beside yourself, flip your lid (slang) She went crook when I confessed.

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crook

noun

1. Something bent:

bend, bow, curvature, curve, round, turn.

2. Informal. A person who cheats:

bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer.

Informal: chiseler, flimflammer.

Slang: diddler, gyp, gypper.

verb

To swerve from a straight line:

angle, arc, arch, bend, bow, curve, round, turn.

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Translations

إنْحِناءه، إلْتِواءعَصا مَعْقوفَـهنَصَّابنَصّاب، مُحْتـاليَحْنـي، يَثْني، يَعْقـف

berladarebákhůllumpohbí

slyngelarmkrogbispestavbøjeforbryder

GaunerkrümmenStabArmbeugeBetrüger

αγύρτηςαπατεώνας

báculocayadomaleantemalhechorpliegue del codo

konnakoukistaarikollinentaive

escrocescroqueurhoulettecourbercreux

varalica

begörbítgörbíthajlatpásztorbot

glæpamaðurglæpamaîur, òorparihirðingjastafurhirîingjastafurkrækja

bastonecriminaleimbroglionelestofantepezzente

ペテン師

사기꾼

kreivaikreivumaskuprotasnesąžiningainesąžiningas

blēdiskrāpnieksliekumslīkumssaliekt

oplichter

kjeltringkrøkeskrummingkrumstavarmkrok

oszust

desonesto

жулик

berla

lopov

skurk

คนทุจริต

bükmekçoban değneği/sopasıdirsek çukurudolandırıcıdüzenbaz

kẻ lừa gạt

弯成钩形弯柄杖手肘内侧部位窃贼骗子

crook

[krʊk]

A. N

1. (shepherd's) → cayado m; (bishop's) → báculo m; (= hook) → gancho m
see also hook A1

2. the crook of one's arm → el pliegue del codo

3. (= thief) → ladrón/ona m/f; (= villain) → maleante mf

4. (= curve) → codo m, recodo m

B. VT (fig) [+ finger] → doblar
to crook one's arm → empinar el codo

C. ADJ (Australia) (= ill) → mal

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crook

[ˈkrʊk] n

(= rogue) → escroc m

(= stick) [shepherd] → houlette f

the crook of one's arm → le creux de son bras

by hook or by crook → coûte que coûte

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crook

¹

n

(= dishonest person) → Gauner m (inf)

(= staff, of shepherd) → Hirtenstab m, → Krummstab m; (of bishop also) → Bischofsstab m ? hook

(= bend: in arm) → Beuge f

vt finger → krümmen; arm → beugen; she only has to crook her (little) finger and he comes running → sie braucht nur mit dem kleinen Finger zu winken und schon kommt er angerannt

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crook

²

adj (Austral inf)

(= sick) → krank; he’s crook with the flu/a cold → er hat die Grippe/eine Erkältung; he feels crook → er fühlt sich mies (inf) → or lausig (inf); he is crook → es geht ihm mies (inf)

(= not functioning) → kaputt (inf); (= not good) → mies (inf)

(= angry) → wild (inf); to go crook at or on somebody → wegen jdm wild werden

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crook

[krʊk]

1. n

a. (fam) (thief) → ladro/a, truffatore/trice

b. the crook of one's arm → l'incavo del braccio

c. (shepherd's) → bastone m (da pastore); (bishop's) → pastorale m

2. vt (arm, finger) → piegare

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crook

(kruk) noun

1. a (shepherd's or bishop's) stick, bent at the end. haak, kromstaf, staf, kierie عَصا مَعْقوفَـه гега bordão hůl, berla der (Hirten-/Bischofs-)Stab hyrdestav; bispestav γκλίτσα, ποιμαντορική ράβδος cayado, báculo sau چوبدستی؛ عصا sauva houletteמטה गड़रिया या पादरी की एक सिरे पर मुड़ा़ हुआ डन्डा pastirski štap pásztorbot tongkat yang ujungnya melengkung hirðingjastafur bastone da pastore; pastorale 柄の曲った杖 갈고리 lazda spieķis; zizlis tongkat gembala kambing stafkrumstav, hyrdestav pastorał امساء bordão cârjă; băţ îndoit посох berla ukrivljena palica pastirski štap herde-, krumstav, kräkla ไม้ที่มีปลายงอ çoban değneği/sopası (牧羊人或主教用的)彎柄杖 костур, ґирлиґа آنك‍ڑا، كن‍ڈا gậy móc （牧羊人或主教用的）弯柄杖

2. a criminal. The two crooks stole the old woman's jewels. skelm, skurk, boef, bedrieër نَصّاب، مُحْتـال мошеник marginal lump, zloděj der Gauner forbryder; slyngel λωποδύτηςcriminal, maleante kelm دزد؛ شیاد rikollinen escroc, voleuseפושע, נוכל अपराधी kriminalac, lopov csaló penjahat glæpamaður, þorpari imbroglione 悪党 사기꾼 sukčius blēdis; krāpnieks penjenayah boefforbryter, svindler, kjeltringoszust غل marginal pungaş, escroc, răufăcător проходимец zlodej, -ka lopov kriminalac bedragare, brottsling คนทุจริต hırsız, dolandırıcı 歹徒 пройдисвіт, шахрай مجرم، بدمعاش kẻ lừa đảo 窃贼

3. the inside of the bend (of one's arm at the elbow). She held the puppy in the crook of her arm. die waai van die arm إنْحِناءه، إلْتِواء извивка dobra do braço ohbí die Armbeuge armkrog καμπύλη μπράτσου pliegue del codo kaenal انحنای داخلی آرنج kainalo creuxכיפוף बांह savinuta ruka hajlat lekuk siku-siku olnbogabót piegatura; gomito 曲げた部分 만곡 sulenkimas saliektā rokā dukung holtebøy, krumming, krok zgięcie د څنګل ننی انحناء dobra do braço scobitură согнутая рука ohyb naročje pregib böjning, krök[ning], armveck ด้านในของส่วนที่งอ dirsek çukuru 手肘內側 вигин كهنى كا اندروني حص‍ہ khuỷu tay 手肘内侧部位

verb

to bend (especially one's finger) into the shape of a hook. She crooked her finger to beckon him. buig يَحْنـي، يَثْني، يَعْقـف извивам dobrar ohnout krümmen bøje; krumme κυρτώνωdoblar, encorvar kõverdama خم کردن؛ قلاب کردن koukistaa courber לְכופֵף उंगलियों को हुक की शक्ल में मोड़ना savinuti se (be)görbít melekukkan krækja piegare 曲げる 구부리다 sulenkti (kabliu) saliekt (roku, pirkstus) membengkok krommenkrumme, bøye, krøkes zakrzywiać خم کیدل، ټیټیدل dobrar a îndoi сгибать ohnúť upogniti saviti kröka, böja ทำให้โค้งงอ eğmek, kıvırmak, bükmek 彎成鉤狀(尤指手指) горбитися; карлючити(ся) م‍ڑنا یا موڑنا uốn cong 弯成钩形（尤指弯起手指）

ˈcrooked (-kid) adjective

1. badly shaped. a crooked little man. krom, geboë مُشَوَّه уродлив torto shrbený buckelig krumbøjet; kroget παραμορφωμένοςencorvado küürus کج و کوله؛ انحنا دار väärä courbéעקום झुका हुआ, टेढ़ा neskladan, savijen hamis bungkuk boginn ricurvo 奇形の 기형의 sukrypęs, kuprotas saliekts; līks keadaan teruk misvormdskjev, krum zgarbiony, skrzywiony انحناء لرونکی torto încovoiat сгорбленный zhrbený skrivljen savijen krokig, böjd, krökt เบี้ยว çarpık, eğri 痀僂的 зігнутий; кривий ٹ‍ي‍ڑها، بد شكل، عيار cong hoặc oằn 畸形的

2. not straight. That picture is crooked (= not horizontal). skeef, geboë, windskeef غيْر مُستَقيم، أعْوَج извит torto nakřivo krumm skæv; bøjet; krum στραβός, μη οριζόντιος torcido viltu نا راست؛ کج vino de traversעקום सीधा नहीं neravan nem egyenes tidak lurus skakkur storto 曲がっている 구부러진 kreivas, pakrypęs greizs; šķībs senget scheefskjevkrzywy کوږ ، نا راست torto strâmb кривой nakrivo postrani nakrivljen sned โค้งงอ eğri, çarpık 不正的 викривлений ٹ‍ي‍ڑها không bằng phẳng 不正的

3. dishonest. a crooked dealer. slinks, oneerlik غَير شَريف нечестен desonesto nečestný unehrlich uhæderlig; lusket ανέντιμοςdeshonesto, venal, pérfido valskust täis نادرست؛ شیاد epärehellinen malhonnêteמושחת बेईमान nepošten tisztességtelen licik óheiðarlegur disonesto 不正直な 부정한 suktas, nesąžiningas negodīgs; blēdīgs tidak jujur oneerlijkuærlig, svindel-, svindler-nieuczciwy نا سم desonesto necinstit нечестный nepoctivý sleparski nepošten ohederlig, oärlig ไม่ซื่อสัตย์ hilekâr, sahtekâr 欺詐的 нечесний بد ديانت không thẳng thắn 欺诈的

ˈcrookedly (-kid-) adverb

oneerlike بِصورَة مُعوَجّـه нечестно desonestamente křivě, pokřiveně krumm, unehrlich uhæderligt; lusket; skævt ανέντιμα sin honestidad, venalmente, pérfidamente viltuselt شیادانه؛ بطور کج kierosti tortueusement בִּמעוּקָם बेईमानी nepošteno elvetemülten, alattomosan; ferdén jahat óheiðarlega disonestamente 不正に 부정하게 kreivai, nesąžiningai greizi; negodīgi secara tidak jujur scheefuærlig; skjevt nieuczciwie کوږ، کړوپ com desonestidade pe căi necinstite криво krivo vijugasto nepošteno krokigt, böjt, krökt ohederligt อย่างเบี้ยว ๆ hilekârca 痀僂地，彎曲地 нечесно عيارى س‍ے một cách quanh co 弯曲地

ˈcrookedness (-kid-) noun

oneerlikheid إعْوِجاج، عَدَم إستِقامـه уродливост desonestidade křivost die Krümmung uhæderlighed; luskethed; skævhed ανεντιμότητα deformidad; criminalidad; deshonestidad, perfidia viltusus, valskus نادرستی؛ انحنا vinous difformité; malhonnêteté עַקמוּמִיוּת बेईमानी nepoštenje görbülés; elvetemültség, aljasság kejahatan óheiðarleiki deformità; disonestà 不正 부정함 kreivumas, nesąžiningumas greizums; negodīgums ketakjujuran misvormdheid, scheefheid, oneerlijkheidskjevhet; uærlighetnieuczciwość انحناء diformitate; ne­cinste кривизна; бесчестность pokrivenosť; nepoctivosť skrivljenost; sprijenost nepoštenje krokighet, ohederlighet ความคดโกง hilekârlık, sahtekârlık 痀僂，彎曲 кривизна; безчесність ٹ‍ي‍ڑهاپن، عيارى، بدديانتى sự quanh co 弯曲

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crook

→ نَصَّاب darebák slyngel Betrüger αγύρτης malhechor konna escroc varalica imbroglione ペテン師 사기꾼 oplichter kjeltring oszust desonesto жулик skurk คนทุจริต düzenbaz kẻ lừa gạt 骗子

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