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hooked

(ho͝okt)

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.

hook′ed·ness (ho͝ok′ĭd-nĭs) 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 n

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hooked

(hʊkt)

adj.

1. bent like a hook; hook-shaped.

2. having a hook or hooks.

3. made by hooking: a hooked rug.

4. Informal.

a. addicted to narcotic drugs.

b. very enthusiastic about or obsessed with something.

5. Slang. married.

[before 1000]

hook′ed•ness, n.

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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"

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.

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Translations

مُتَعَلِّق ، مُهتَم جدا فيمَعْقوف

posedlýzahnutý

hooked påkroget

süchtig

γαμψός

ganchudo

accro accroché crochu

odavan

boginnmeî dellu, meî á heilanum, háîur e-u

adunco agganciato fanatico preso ricurvo

hekta på

zahnutý

düşkün eğri kıvrık tiryaki

入了迷的钩状的

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

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

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

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

hooked

adj

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

(= equipped with hooks) → mit Haken versehen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

hook

(huk) noun

1. a small piece of metal shaped like a J fixed at the end of a fishing-line used for catching fish etc. a fish-hook.

2. a bent piece of metal etc used for hanging coats, cups etc on, or a smaller one sewn on to a garment, for fastening it. Hang your jacket on that hook behind the door; hooks and eyes.

3. in boxing, a kind of punch with the elbow bent. a left hook.

verb

1. to catch (a fish etc) with a hook. He hooked a large salmon.

2. to fasten or to be fastened by a hook or hooks. He hooked the ladder on (to the branch); This bit hooks on to that bit; Could you hook my dress up down the back?

3. in golf, to hit (the ball) far to the left of where it should be (or to the right if one is left-handed).

hooked adjective

1. curved like a hook. a hooked nose.

2. (with on) slang for very interested in, or showing a great liking for; addicted to. He's hooked on modern art; He's hooked on marijuana.

by hook or by crook

by some means or another; in any way possible. I'll get her to marry me, by hook or by crook.

off the hook

free from some difficulty or problem. If he couldn't keep the terms of the contract, he shouldn't have signed it – I don't see how we can get him off the hook now.

hooked

adj (fam, on drugs) enganchado (fam), adicto; — on heroin enganchado a la heroína; to get — engancharse, volverse adicto

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Into this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for what follows.

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The other sword was of about the same length as the hooked instrument, and somewhere between that of my long-sword and my short-sword.

As the white-furred one approached, the six grasped their swords more firmly--the hooked instrument in the left hand, the straight sword in the right, while above the left wrist the small shield was held rigid upon a metal bracelet.

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This apparatus is often set towards night, and by the next morning several sturgeon will be found hooked by it; for though a large and strong fish, it makes but little resistance when ensnared.

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For walleyes hooked deeply in the esophagus, gills, or tongue, the line was cut or the hook was removed with pliers.

Ice Fishing and Walleye Survival

Small live baits such as Spanish sardines, pilchards and threadfin herring can be simply hooked sideways through the hard part of the nose near the nostrils.

Purpose Built Bait Rigs: Different hooks in different places

"When a shark is hooked, the angler fights the shark from the beach, eventually getting them into the shallows where the hook can be removed and the shark can be tagged, measured, photographed and released."

Florida Removes Rusty Hook From Shark's Mouth

Numerous studies of the recreational use of circle hooks in teleost fisheries and the commercial pelagic longline fishery indicate that fewer fish are "deep hooked" on circle hooks and that catch efficiency with circle hooks is equal to, or better than, that with J hooks (Cooke and Suski, 2004; Serafy et al., 2012).

A comparison of circle hook and J hook performance in the recreational shark fishery off Maryland

Many studies have shown that where a fish is hooked has a significant bearing on whether that fish will be successfully released after capture.

Circle hooks as a conservation tool

Treatment of fresh Tossy III acromioclavicular joint dislocation by ligament suture and temporary fixation with the clavicular hooked plate.

Comparison of the efficacy of hook plate versus pinning in treatment of acute acromioclavicular joint dislocation

Finally, we predicted that women would be at greater risk for sexual compliance and sexual coercion than men (Hypothesis 4), that new students who hooked up would be at greater risk for both forms of unwanted sex than students who did not hook up (Hypothesis 5), and that gender would interact with hooking up such that women who hooked up during the transition to college would be more likely to report unwanted sex (Hypothesis 6) than either other women or than men.

Moving in and hooking up: women's and men's casual sexual experiences during the first two months of college

HOOKED: James has major decisions to make about his future after setting his heart on the No 10 role for club and country

Hook wants to take the bait; HEINEKEN CUP: OSPREYS V LEICESTER , SATURDAY K.O. 1pm Sky Sp2

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