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Hoon is Australian slang for a lout, hooligan or disreputable youth. Hoon was Australian slang for a pimp.
Joe Hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for book. Joe Hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for crook.
Kook is American slang for an eccentric or crazy person.
Peter Cook was 's London Cockney rhyming slang for book.
The ship's anchor. eg. "We pulled into the bay and dropped the hook for the night."
One way or other, by any expedient. "It can't be done by hook or crook.â€
Captain Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for book. Captain Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
A chicken. e.g. "Did you cook that chook for tucker mum?"
Cook is slang for to happen.Cook is slang for to prepare drugs by heating.
To do any way possible.
Butcher's hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Book. I've read the new fish by Deighton.
On the hook is slang for waiting. On the hook is slang for in a dangerous or difficult situation.
Absent onself from school with no viable excuse. Used in the phrase "going on the hook.
Thomas Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Docker's hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Rookery nook is London Cockney rhyming slang for a book.
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v. t.
To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
v. t.
To express or manifest by a look.
a.
Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
n.
Anything resembling a hood in form or use
v. t.
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.
a.
Provided with a hook or hooks.
v. t.
To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
adv.
Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
v. t.
To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
v. t.
To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
n.
Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.
a.
Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
n.
The book used by a prompter of a theater.
n.
See Eccentric, and V-hook.
v. t.
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
n.
A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
v. i.
To bend; to curve as a hook.
n.
The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
v. t.
To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
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