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What is "tail-hook"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tail-hook

1861, in angling, from tail (n.1) + hook (n.).

Usage examples of "tail-hook".

The expression had become widespread in the Navy after the notorious Tail-hook scandal of 1991, when Navy aviators just home after Desert Storm had gone ballistic at the Tail-hook Convention in Las Vegas.

Such goings-on had typified other Tail-hook Conventions, but somehow, this one had gotten out of hand.

Seminars and programs to fight sexual harassment among naval aviators had been instituted in the wake of the infamous Tail-hook scandal.