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hook on

v. adopt; "take up new ideas" [syn: take up, latch on, fasten on, seize on]

Usage examples of "hook on".

The Fokker flew down, dipped a wing, and picked a handkerchief off the pole with the hook on its wing.

Brian, who had been in charge of hanging this picture -- he could just reach the hook on tip-toe -- dropped it.

As soon as Mip entered the cot he picked a tarn goad from a hook on the wall over a small table with a lamp and papers on it.

He blinked furiously, then remembered his L-shaped flashlight, hanging by a hook on the front of his survival vest.

Then he laid his hook on the desktop and turned in his chair so the dim light from the window caught the good side of his face.

She loosed the hook on the long tiller and put the holding pin in to get it in action before they hit another piling.