HOOKING

To attach a hook to.

Example: "Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away."

To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

Example: "He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water."

To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

Example: "He hooked his fingers through his belt loops."

To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

Example: "A free trial is a good way to hook customers."

To steal.

To connect (hook into, hook together).

Example: "If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network."

(usually in passive) to make addicted; to captivate.

Example: "He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth."

To play a hook shot.

To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

Example: "The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty."

To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.

To engage in prostitution.

Example: "I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and i could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window."

(scrabble) to play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

To finesse.

To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

To move or go with a sudden turn.