Crossword clues for hooked
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hook \Hook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Hooking.]
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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.
Hook him, my poor dear, . . . at any sacrifice.
--W. Collins. To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
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To steal. [Colloq. Eng. & U.S.]
To hook on, to fasten or attach by, or as by, hook.
Hooked \Hooked\, a.
Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
Provided with a hook or hooks. ``The hooked chariot.''
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hoced, "shaped like a hook, crooked, curved;" past participle adj. from hook (v.). From mid-14c. as "having hooks;" 1610s as "caught on a hook;" 1925 as "addicted," originally in reference to narcotics. hooked rug is recorded from 1880.
Wiktionary
1 Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook. 2 addicted; unable to resist or cease doing. v
(en-past of: hook)
WordNet
adj. curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: aquiline]
addicted to a drug [syn: dependent, dependant, drug-addicted, strung-out]
Wikipedia
Hooked is the fifth full-length studio album by the American hard rock band Great White, released in 1991. Though lacking a recognizable hit single and not commercially as successful as ...Twice Shy, it still managed to peak at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 album chart and it was critically well received. The album was certified Gold in April 1991. The original album cover art was photographed by famous fashion photographer John Scarpati and featured a nude female model being hoisted out of the sea by a large hook. This cover was judged too risque by the label and replaced by art director Hugh Syme shortly after the initial pressing with an alternative cover that had the hook still below the sea level and the model partially submerged, so that only her head and arms were visible.
The song "Desert Moon" was a minor hit and, in February 2003, was the band's live opening song during which pyrotechnics ignited The Station nightclub fire, killing 100 people, including (then) Great White lead guitarist Ty Longley.
The initial Japanese pressing retained the original cover, and added a bonus CD entitled Live in New York, recorded at Electric Lady Studios on May 31, 1991.
Hooked or Picnic is a 2008 film by Adrian Sitaru, set in Romania (original name: Pescuit sportiv, duration: 84 minutes). It is the story of a barbecue trip of a Romanian couple, which takes an unexpected turn when their car runs over a prostitute while driving through a forest near Bucharest. The incident throws a new light over the relationship of the two lovers, and shows how much change can come for human beings in a single day.
"Hooked" is the 16th episode of the fifth season of the CBS situation comedy How I Met Your Mother and 104th episode overall. It originally aired on March 1, 2010.
Hooked (foaled 30 October 2010) is a champion Australia Thoroughbred racehorse.
On 25 October 2014, he won the Crystal Mile.
Hooked (1989) is the ninth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, covering the period from July 1985 to June 1988.
All articles in the book originally appeared in The New Yorker.
She reviews more than 170 films giving rich praise to the work of directors and performers she admires - in this collection for example, Robert Altman; Alan Rudolph - for his film Songwriter; Nick Nolte; Susan Sarandon; Melanie Griffith; Lesley Ann Warren; Steve Martin in Roxanne. And she attacks what she regards as second rate, for example, George Lucas, -"George Lucas should believe less in himself - he keeps trying to come up with an original idea, and he can't"; and the film Heartbreak Ridge - "It would take a board of inquiry made up of gods to determine whether this picture is more offensive aesthetically, psychologically, morally, or politically."
The films she recommends include:
- The Best of Times
- Dreamchild
- Sweet Dreams
- Down and Out in Beverly Hills
- Compromising Positions
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- Mona Lisa
- Salvador
- Club Paradise
- Mike's Murder
- Blue Velvet
- She's Gotta Have It
- Re-Animator
- Something Wild
- Hour of the Star
- The Stepfather
- Law of Desire
- Raising Arizona
- Brazil
- Roxanne
- Tampopo
- Eat the Peach
- The Witches of Eastwick
- Wish You Were Here
- Hamburger Hill
- Hope and Glory
- Weeds
- The Dead
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
- Moonstruck
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- High Tide
- High Season
- Pass the Ammo
- Hairspray
- Matador
- Beetlejuice
- Masquerade
- A World Apart
- Bull Durham
The title refers to her film 'addiction'. "I got hooked on movies at an early age, (around 4 or 5 , when I saw them while sitting on my parents' laps), and I am still a child before a moving image. Movies seem to me the most mysteriously great of all art forms."
The book is out-of-print in the United States, but is still published by Marion Boyars Publishers in the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of "hooked".
He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.
As soon as abreaction hits one of your group, the others soon topple - one after the other they are hooked.
Get it clearly into your mind: one ingenuity of the nicotine trap is that, like all drug addiction, it is designed to keep you hooked, and that the more it adversely affects your health and purse, the more securely you appear to be hooked.
Another subtle aspect of addiction is that, although it is the first dose that hooks us, the whole process is usually so subtle and gradual that it can take years for us to realize that we are actually hooked.
Physicians have a greater incidence of alcoholism, and they also have a higher incidence of getting hooked on medications like Talwin and Demerol and other injectable opiates because of their greater access to them.
Our patience was rewarded on the fifth night when Capers hooked a small amberjack and brought it on board with a shout.
With the horned moon hooked round the topmost limb, And the owl awatch on the branch below, What is the song of the winds that blow Through your boughs so mysteriously?
Above my head, that unpleasant, snake-necked bird came gliding back towards the ruins, and I saw that its beack was hooked around a fish that writhed and struggled helplessly.
He looked out to the blue sierras to the south and he hitched up the shoulder strap of his overalls and sat with his thumb hooked in the bib and turned and looked at them.
Since most communication between the biochip and the outside world was supposed to happen over the radio, only a few of these fifty pins were hooked up to the biochip itself.
Into this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for what follows.
Then he hooked his hat on a wood peg and combed his hair in an oxidized mirror, lit an unfiltered cigarette, and sat down at a table by himself while a mulatto woman brought him a shot of whiskey and a beer on the side and a length of white boudin in a saucer.
Proximity to Bryn Shander was second only to the quantity of fish hooked in determining the success and size of the fishing towns.
They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms.
Beebe with the rest of them, hooked into the library or hiding in his cubby, safe and dry.