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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. | ![]() 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"; |
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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.
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Translations
مُتَعَلِّق ، مُهتَم جدا فيمَعْقوف
posedlýzahnutý
hooked påkroget
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boginnmeî dellu, meî á heilanum, háîur e-u
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hooked
[hʊkt] ADJ1. (= 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
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
to be hooked on sth [+ drug, alcohol] → être accro à qch (fig) [+ hobby, television] → être accro à qch
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hooked
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hook
(huk) noun1. 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.
verb1. 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 adjective1. 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.
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hooked
adj (fam, on drugs) enganchado (fam), adicto; — on heroin enganchado a la heroína; to get — engancharse, volverse adictoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.