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📖 Определения и значения для слова hook

📒 a curved piece of metal, plastic or wire for hanging things on, catching fish with, etc.

a picture/curtain/coat hook
a fish hook
Hang your towel on the hook.

📒 a short hard hit that is made with the elbow bent

a left hook to the jaw

📒 a way of hitting the ball so that it curves to the side instead of going straight ahead (usually by mistake in golf, but deliberately in cricket)

📒 a thing that is used to make people interested in something

The images are used as a hook to get children interested in science.
Well-chosen quotations can serve as a hook to catch the reader’s interest.

📒 using any method you can, even a dishonest one

📒 completely

What I said was not true, but he fell for it (= believed it) hook, line and sinker.

📒 having got free from a difficult situation or a punishment

I lied to get him off the hook.
No way will she let you off the hook this time.
I was finally off the hook.

📒 if you leave or take a landline phone off the hook, you take the receiver (= the part that you pick up) off the place where it usually rests, so that nobody can call you

📒 responsible for paying for something

Citizens are increasingly on the hook for more of their own medical costs.

📒 to ring many times, with one phone call after another

The phone has been ringing off the hook with offers of help.

📒 to go away

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