Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a hook.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)

Etymologies

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hook +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The real treasure, though, is the aforementioned "Windstorm," a percolating summer concoction with a hooklike gull's cry.

    Album review: School of Seven Bells, "Disconnect From Desire" 2010

  • The real treasure, though, is the aforementioned "Windstorm," a percolating summer concoction with a hooklike gull's cry.

    Album review: ‘Disconnect From Desire' by School of Seven Bells 2010

  • I know very little about them except that they grow and grow and that they cover the hillside now, and when I pass by them with my lawnmower buzzing they catch at my shirt and my arm with their remarkably hooklike sharp thorns.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • I know very little about them except that they grow and grow and that they cover the hillside now, and when I pass by them with my lawnmower buzzing they catch at my shirt and my arm with their remarkably hooklike sharp thorns.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • De Mestral shoved a bit of burr under a microscope and saw that its barbed, hooklike seed pods meshed beautifully with the looped fibers in his clothes.

    Sticky Stuff 2008

  • Dozens of fishing nets had become snagged on the hooklike davits.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Dozens of fishing nets had become snagged on the hooklike davits.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The Zhakar carried a hooklike sword that could be used to stab, slash, or grasp an opponent.

    Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993

  • She tried to lift a hand, fingers flexed for clawing, but then the hand fell down onto the sheet and the fingers lost their hooklike attitude.

    Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981

  • Then, with a swift encircling movement, that hooklike arm wrapped itself around Flint's neck and drew him into the shadow.

    The Master Mystery John W. Grey 1908

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