Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

Usage examples of crook.

This unfamiliar language, Agro, was obviously the means of communication between crooks who were working toward a common cause.

Loading the contact syringes would take more time than he had, so he drew fifty milligrams into a conventional syringe and shot the drug into the antecubital vein at the crook of her elbow.

The roads in the Ardennes were as narrow and crooked as the rivers, full of hairpin curves and steep grades.

He was halfway along the passage before he flung away his automatics, to snatch up revolvers that crooks had dropped.

He was thinking of a former crook and murderer named Birmingham Jones.

Practically the entire passenger list had been composed of crooks employed by the wily Birmingham Jones.

Watching the kid brakie from behind his covert of bushes, the masked leader of the crooks knew that his scheme was working out accurately.

Pausing at his Range-Rover, the man from Brompton Agricultural produced a lap-top computer which he held comfortably in the crook of his arm, tapping in calculations as he walked.

Moving in select circles, this crook felt no fear of implication in the Club Cadiz outrage.

While Andrew Blouchet leaped forward and drew Fanchon Callier to cover, Wayson and Harry beat the two crooks to the finish.

Considering the crooked sword, the Graeaean subterfuge, the rear-view approaches to Medusa and Cetus, the far-darting Hermean sandals, even the trajectory of the discus that killed Acrisius, would it be fair to generalize that dodge and indirection were my conscious tactics, and, if so, were they characterological or by Athenian directive?

Even on the clearest night the keep looked haunted, collecting pockets of fog and throwing crooked shadows across the grounds.

A glance at the map will show that a force moving from this point in conjunction with another from Lydenburg might form the two crooked claws of a crab to enclose a great space of country, in which smaller columns might collect whatever was to be found.

Frequently there are enough crooked or conky trees to serve the purpose.

He carried a shotgun the way countryfolk do, broken over the crook of an arm, barrel down, stock under his elbow.