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hook

1. tv. to cheat someone. Watch the clerk in that store. He might try to hook you.

2. tv. to steal something. Lefty hooked a couple of candy bars just for the hell of it.

3. tv. to addict someone (to something). (Not necessarily drugs.) The constant use of bicarb hooked him to the stuff.

4. n. the grade of C. I didn’t study at all and I still got a hook!

5. tv. to earn or pull the grade of C on something in school. History? I hooked it without any trouble.

See:

• be off the hook
• be on the hook
• by hook or by crook
• by hook or crook
• crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
• cunt-hooks
• fall for hook, line and sinker
• get (one) off the hook
• get hooks in
• get hooks into
• get off the hook
• get one’s hooks into someone
• get one’s hooks into something
• get the ax
• get the hook
• hook
• hook down
• hook in
• hook into
• hook it
• hook on
• hook oneself on
• hook shop
• hook something down
• hook up
• hook up with
• hook, line, and sinker
• hooks
• let (someone) off the hook
• off the hook
• off the peg
• on one’s own hook
• on one's own account
• on own hook
• on the hook
• ring off the hook
• shit-hooks
• sky hook
• Sling hook!
• swallow hook, line, and sinker
• wriggle off the hook