Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hooked in the stomach, having swallowed bait, hook, and all: said of a fish.
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Examples
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If she'd been a woman like the kind they was used to -- the Cape kind, I mean -- I don't s'pose they'd have paid any attention to her; but she was diff'rent from anything they'd ever run up against, and the first thing you know, she had 'em both poke-hooked.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Harvey cried, as the fish came in gasping and splashing -- nearly all poke-hooked, as Dan had said.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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