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snook
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"derisive gesture," 1791, of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes, especially 2 # (taxlink Centropomus undecimalis species noshow=1), the common snook. 3 Any of various other fishes. See (pedialite). vb. To fish for snook. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Snook is a Swedish rap group from Stockholm . The group consists of Oskar "Kihlen" Linnros and Daniel "Danne" Adams-Ray . The group often makes fun of traditional rap and tries to reinvent it. They have released two full-length albums and several singles. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES cock a snook at sb/sth ▪ The federal parliament also cocked a snook at the United Nations administration in Kosovo. ▪ Tom Keating spent a lifetime cocking a snook at the art world. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The federal parliament ...
Usage examples of snook.
He stopped at the muffled peal of the door bell and Snook went away to answer it.
At the consulting rooms she got out and Snook slid into the driving seat.
There was no sign of her as they went in and Snook beamed at her and offered to take her coat.
He put an arm round her and led her indoors to be met by Snook, who took one look and went to fetch Mrs.
Then he went downstairs to await Aunt Emily, whom Snook had gone to fetch with the car.
She ate the delicious lunch Snook set before them and then wandered round the house, admiring the portraits on its walls and running an appreciative finger along the lovely old furniture, picturing him living there with his Brenda.
He included Charity and Snook in his quiet good night as he left the house, his face quite impassive.
He happened to know the real Snook Loggard was in an Ohio penitentiary, under an assumed name.
I know is that I got suspicious of this guy Snook, thought at first he was a Tant man, then got the suspicion he might be a Doc Savage man.
His monocle, which during his acting of the part of the crook Snook Loggard, had been concealed in his clothing, now fell out of his mouth.
He hooked a big snook and was trying to pull it in by himself when his necklace got tangled with the fishline.
I heard the word on the snook hole, remembered the way Meyer would talk a good one up to the side of the boat, and that was how we happened to be under the bridge in a rented skiff Monday midnight, casting the active surface plugs into a splendid snook hole, with the skiff tied to one of the bridge pilings.
Big snook came in right under this here dock last night, popping loud as a man slapping his hands.
There he purchased four anchors and borrowed a crab boat and headed for a snook hole he knew on the Lostmans River.
Skinner turned toward the river, where a snook was blasting minnows under the dock lights.