hooks

hooks
n. the hands. (See also meathooks.)
Get your hooks off my newspaper!
Don’t stand there with your hooks in your pocket. Get busy!

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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  • Hooks — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: bell hooks (* 1952), afroamerikanische Philosophin und Aktivistin Robert Hooks (* 1937), US amerikanischer Schauspieler Valerie Brisco Hooks (* 1960), US amerikanische Sprinterin und Olympiasiegerin Ort:… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Hooks — Hooks, TX U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 2973 Housing Units (2000): 1345 Land area (2000): 2.058155 sq. miles (5.330598 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.058155 sq. miles (5.330598 sq. km) …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Hooks, TX — U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 2973 Housing Units (2000): 1345 Land area (2000): 2.058155 sq. miles (5.330598 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.058155 sq. miles (5.330598 sq. km) FIPS code …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Hooks — /hooks/, n. Benjamin Lawson, born 1925, U.S. lawyer, clergyman, and civil rights advocate: executive director of the NAACP 1977 93. * * * …   Universalium

  • Hooks —  Cette page d’homonymie répertorie des personnes (réelles ou fictives) partageant un même patronyme. bell hooks (1952 ), intellectuelle, féministe et militante américaine ; Jan Hooks (1957 ), actrice américaine ; Kevin Hooks (1958… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • hooks — noun large strong hand (as of a fighter) wait till I get my hooks on him • Syn: ↑meat hooks, ↑maulers • Hypernyms: ↑hand, ↑manus, ↑mitt, ↑paw * * * plural of …   Useful english dictionary

  • Hooks — Recorded as Hook, Hooke, Hooker, Hookes, Hooks, Huck, Huke, Hocke and Huckes, this is a very early English medieval surname, perhaps even the earliest or certainly one of that select group. It has three possible origins, although none are… …   Surnames reference

  • Hooks — Original name in latin Hooks Name in other language State code US Continent/City America/Chicago longitude 33.46623 latitude 94.28853 altitude 116 Population 2769 Date 2011 05 14 …   Cities with a population over 1000 database

  • hooks — n pl hands. For obvious reasons this meta phorical usage, associated with the images of getting one s hooks into someone or something and to hook meaning to steal, has existed for several hundred years …   Contemporary slang

  • Hooks (Texas) — Hooks Ciudad de los Estados Unidos …   Wikipedia Español

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