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Hooked
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Hooked on a Feeling may refer to: "Hooked on a Feeling" (song), by B. J. Thomas, 1968; covered by Blue Swede, 1973 Hooked on a Feeling (Blue Swede album)
Hooked_on_a_Feeling
Pop song written by Mark James, first recorded by B.J. Thomas in 1968
"Hooked on a Feeling" is a 1968 pop song written by Mark James and first recorded by American singer B. J. Thomas. Thomas's version featured the sound
Hooked_on_a_Feeling_(song)
1982 popular album of swing medleys in disco format
Hooked on Swing is an album produced by Larry Elgart in 1982 for K-tel International and released by RCA Records. K-tel scored a major success with the
Hooked_on_Swing
Brand of educational materials
Hooked on Phonics is a commercial brand of educational materials, initially designed to teach reading through phonics. First marketed in 1987, the program
Hooked_on_Phonics
American soul singer (1942–2018)
Aretha Louise Franklin (/əˈriːθə/ ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Regarded as the "Queen of
Aretha_Franklin
1981 studio album by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hooked on Classics is a classical crossover album recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Louis Clark, released in 1981 by K-tel and
Hooked_on_Classics
Topics referred to by the same term
Hooked on Love may refer to: Hooked on Love, a 1987 album by Clarence Carter "Hooked on Love" (Dead or Alive song), from the album Mad, Bad and Dangerous
Hooked_on_Love
Ancient Eurasian icon and Nazi symbol
French: croix gammée), as each arm resembles the Greek letter Γ (gamma) hooked cross (German: Hakenkreuz), angled cross (Winkelkreuz), or crooked cross
Swastika
2009 Russian action film
Hooked on the Game (Russian: На игре, romanized: Na igre) is a 2009 Russian action film directed by Pavel Sanayev, it is an adaptation of the science-fiction
Hooked_on_the_Game
1974 studio album by Blue Swede
Hooked on a Feeling is an album by Swedish rock band Blue Swede released in 1974. They became internationally recognized largely due to their 'ooga chaka'
Hooked on a Feeling (Blue Swede album)
Hooked_on_a_Feeling_(Blue_Swede_album)
2013 Spanish film
Hooked Up is a 2013 Spanish found footage horror film directed by Pablo Larcuen, written by Larcuen and Eduard Sola, and starring Stephen Ohl, Jonah Ehrenreich
Hooked_Up_(film)
Album series by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Hooked on Classics series is a collection of record albums first introduced in 1981, toward the end of the disco era's peak in popularity. The series
Hooked_on_Classics_(series)
2001 single by All Saints
"All Hooked Up" is a song by English-Canadian girl group All Saints from their second album, Saints & Sinners (2000). London Records released the song
All_Hooked_Up
Topics referred to by the same term
Hooked on You may refer to: Hooked on You (film), a 2007 Hong Kong comedy-drama film "Hooked on You" (song), a 1977 song by Bread "Hooked on You", a song
Hooked_on_You
Chat fiction mobile application
Hooked is a mobile application where users can write or read chat fiction, short pieces of fiction told in the format of text messages between fictional
Hooked_(app)
Topics referred to by the same term
Look up hooked up in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hooked Up may refer to: Hooked Up (film), a 2013 Spanish horror film Hooked Up (TV series), a 2004
Hooked_Up
Human nose with a prominent bridge
curved beak of an eagle. In ancient Roman imperial portraiture, a prominent hooked nose was a recurring element in depictions of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Aquiline_nose
1982 studio album by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hooked on Classics 2: Can't Stop the Classics is an album by Louis Clark and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, released in 1982 by RCA Records as part
Hooked on Classics 2: Can't Stop the Classics
Hooked_on_Classics_2:_Can't_Stop_the_Classics
1991 studio album by Great White
Hooked is the fifth studio album by American rock band Great White, released on February 26, 1991. Though lacking a recognizable hit single and not as
Hooked_(Great_White_album)
Hooked: Film Writings, 1985–88 (1989) is the ninth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, covering the period from July 1985 to June 1988
Hooked_(book)
American writer, educator, and entrepreneur
Israeli-born American author, lecturer, and investor. He wrote the 2014 book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Nir Eyal was born on February 19,
Nir_Eyal
1956 film by Jack Hannah
Hooked Bear is a 1956 short film in the Humphrey the Bear series. Fishing season has begun and park ranger J. Audubon Woodlore goes out on the lake to
Hooked_Bear
Swedish rock band (1973-1979)
Swede released two albums of cover versions, including a rendition of "Hooked on a Feeling", which brought them international chart success. The band
Blue_Swede
2012 video game
Let's Fish! Hooked On, also known in Japan as Let's Try Bass Fishing, FISH ON NEXT, is an arcade fishing game developed for the PlayStation Vita by SIMS
Let's_Fish!_Hooked_On
American basketball player
soundtrack was produced by DJ Premier. Hooked had its world premiere at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival. Hooked was released on DVD by Razor & Tie in October
Demetrius_"Hook"_Mitchell
1993–1994 American animated television series
Hedgehog series episode "Ultra Sonic" Sonic the Hedgehog series episode "Hooked on Sonics" "- YouTube". Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved
Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)
Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(TV_series)
1993 studio album by Jamiroquai
shape up the album, which are followed up by the "high-kicking" funk track "Hooked Up". With the fourth track "If I Like It I Do It" Kay said it reminded him
Emergency_on_Planet_Earth
2018 single by Why Don't We
"Hooked" is a song performed by American boy band Why Don't We. The song was released as a digital download on June 7, 2018 by Signature and Atlantic Records
Hooked_(Why_Don't_We_song)
1983 compilation album by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hooked on Classics 3 (Journey Through the Classics) is the third album in the Hooked on Classics series, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hooked on Classics 3: Journey Through the Classics
Hooked_on_Classics_3:_Journey_Through_the_Classics
English musician (1947–2021)
Music. He is best known for his work with Electric Light Orchestra and Hooked on Classics. Clark started out as a bass guitarist for Birmingham band The
Louis_Clark
2007 Hong Kong film by Law Wing-cheong
Hooked on You (traditional Chinese: 每當變幻時; simplified Chinese: 每当变幻时; Cantonese Yale: Múih dōng bin waahn sìh) is a 2007 Hong Kong comedy-drama film directed
Hooked_on_You_(film)
Polka-style song covers by "Weird Al" Yankovic
the medleys, such as the sound effects. Four of Yankovic's polka medleys—"Hooked on Polkas", "Polka Power!", "The Hamilton Polka", and "Polkamania!" —have
List of "Weird Al" Yankovic polka medleys
List_of_"Weird_Al"_Yankovic_polka_medleys
Crenshaw) "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies; sung by Gingy (Conrad Vernon) "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede; sung by Captain Hook (Matt Mahaffey) "These
List of songs featured in Shrek
List_of_songs_featured_in_Shrek
American singer (born 1990)
copies for the week. Scott followed up "My Girl" with a number 2 record, "Hooked", from his Dylan Scott album, which was later certified Gold. Scott released
Dylan_Scott
1968 film directed by William Grefe
The Hooked Generation is a 1968 American crime drama film directed by William Grefé, starring Jeremy Slate, Steve Alaimo and John Davis Chandler. Jeremy
The_Hooked_Generation
American songwriter, singer and actor (1942–2020)
subsequent solo career in the 1970s produced hits such as "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me". Davis also starred in his own variety show, a Broadway musical,
Mac_Davis
Swedish heavy metal band
for Metal (EP) 1983: The Lord of Flies 1984: Visions of the Past 1985: Hooked on High Heels 2021: Out of the Ashes Into the Fire Anders Wallentoft (1981–1987
Axewitch
2011 studio album by Jennifer Lopez
projects. In February 2009, a new song from those recording sessions titled "Hooked on You" leaked online. Lopez would address the leak on her official website
Love?
Species of herb
Rumex brownii, the hooked dock, Browne's dock or swamp dock, is a leafy perennial herb native to Australia, and is widespread and grows in disturbed sites
Rumex_brownii
1986 studio album by Dead or Alive
– 3:45 "Come Inside" – 4:28 Side two "Something in My House"†† – 7:20 "Hooked on Love" – 3:55 "I Want You" – 4:12 "Special Star" – 4:10 † A shortened
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Dead or Alive album)
Mad,_Bad_and_Dangerous_to_Know_(Dead_or_Alive_album)
12th episode of the 3rd season of South Park
"Hooked on Monkey Fonics" is the twelfth-aired and the thirteenth-produced episode of the third season of the animated television series South Park and
Hooked_on_Monkey_Fonics
2022 video game
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim is a dating sim developed by Psyop and published by Behaviour Interactive. It is a parodic game where players
Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim
Hooked_on_You:_A_Dead_by_Daylight_Dating_Sim
British indie pop band
Everything I Ever Wanted. Two more albums followed in 1989 (Joy Ride) and 1990 (Hooked), followed by a second compilation, Creamy Stuff, in 1991. They released
The_Brilliant_Corners
Season of American television series
LaFache) who claim to be unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. 131 15 "Hooked" Jean de Segonzac Joshua Kotcheff February 15, 2005 (2005-02-15) E5211 13
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 6
Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit_season_6
Hot Country Songs chart between 1970 and 1986. His song "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary
Mac_Davis_discography
American singer and actress (born 1983)
March 22, 2010. Zoromski, Brian (March 2, 2010). "How I Met Your Mother: Hooked Review". IGN. Retrieved September 9, 2012. "Sesame Street Creates 'Carrie
Carrie_Underwood
Family of squids
The hooked squid, family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise about 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfirmed), in
Hooked_squid
2010 studio album by Lucy Woodward
Hooked! is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Lucy Woodward. It was released on June 15, 2010 as her debut album for Verve Records. The
Hooked!
Specialized metal tool used in working with tires
have a separate inner tube, and can have a hooked C-shape cut into one end of the iron so that it may be hooked on a bicycle spoke to hold it in place. Tire
Tire_iron
American actress and model (1926–1962)
"my first taste of what real acting in a real drama could be, and I was hooked". Despite her enthusiasm, her teachers thought her too shy and insecure
Marilyn_Monroe
2013 book by Michael Moss
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us is a book by Michael Moss published by Random House in 2013 that won the James Beard Foundation Award for
Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt,_Sugar,_Fat:_How_the_Food_Giants_Hooked_Us
1990 studio album by Vanilla Ice
Williams. Following the release of an early version of the album titled Hooked by Ichiban Records in 1989, Ice was signed by SBK for $325,000 and the mixtape
To_the_Extreme
2026 Indian film by Prem
of 5 and said that "The film makes a big entrance but doesn't keep you hooked till the end". Susmita Sameera reviewing for The Times of India gave 2.5
KD:_The_Devil
Family of seabirds (Fregatidae)
All have predominantly black plumage, long, deeply forked tails and long hooked bills. Females have white underbellies and males have a distinctive red
Frigatebird
Craft technique for rugs and hangings
size from 3⁄32 to 10⁄32 in (2 to 8 mm) in width are often used to create hooked rugs or wall hangings. These precision strips are usually cut using a mechanical
Rug_hooking
Species of flowering plant
Ranunculus recurvatus, the blisterwort or hooked crowfoot, is a plant species of the genus Ranunculus in the family Ranunculaceae native to eastern North
Ranunculus_recurvatus
Canadian pop singer (born 1996)
music influences into her style, and sings in English, French and Arabic. "Hooked", her first single to chart in the Canadian Hot 100, is a gender-flipped
Zeina_(singer)
1982 single by Skyhooks
"Hooked on Hooks" is a 1982 medley produced from earlier recordings by the Australian band Skyhooks. It is a megamix of seven of their greatest hits. It
Hooked_on_Hooks
2025 studio album by Franz Ferdinand
Thomson in 2021. Preceded by the singles, "Audacious", "Night or Day" and "Hooked", the album reached number three on the UK Albums Chart and number one on
The_Human_Fear
Form of musical articulation
Portato ([porˈtaːto]; Italian past participle of portare, "to carry"), also mezzo-staccato, French notes portées, in music denotes a smooth, pulsing articulation
Portato
2018 studio album by Why Don't We
Warner Music Group elsewhere. The album was supported by three singles: "Hooked", "Talk" and the title-track "8 Letters". Chris DeVille of Stereogum described
8_Letters
1988 studio album by Sweet Sensation
to #63 on the Billboard pop albums chart and spawned five hit singles: "Hooked on You", "Victim of Love", "Take It While It's Hot", "Never Let You Go"
Take_It_While_It's_Hot
Indian record label
Entertainment in partnership with Mass Appeal India; Naya Zamana in 2020 and Hooked in 2021, respectively. The label signed Raja Kumari in 2020. In 2022, the
Mass_Appeal_India
British television series
Guardian gave the show three stars and said it had "enough to keep you hooked even after you realise too many of the characters are ciphers, the main
The_Revenge_Club
1997 studio album by David Hasselhoff
Hooked on a Feeling is the ninth studio album by American actor and singer David Hasselhoff, released on November 11, 1997, by Polydor Records. On the
Hooked on a Feeling (David Hasselhoff album)
Hooked_on_a_Feeling_(David_Hasselhoff_album)
Protrusion found on the side of some ships, aircraft and vehicles
for watercraft available on the market today – the basic block type, the hooked or winged type, and the paddle or rudder type. The block type is the simplest
Sponson
2002 studio album by B2K
Santa Hooked Me Up is the second studio album and only Christmas album by R&B group B2K, released on October 29, 2002. It was released just two months
Santa_Hooked_Me_Up
1977 single by Bread
"Hooked on You" is a song written and composed by David Gates, and originally recorded by the soft rock group Bread, of which Gates was the leader and
Hooked_on_You_(song)
American film director (born 1970)
Allen Wolf (born October 29, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, novelist, and board game creator. Allen Wolf studied filmmaking
Allen_Wolf
American songwriter (1940–2024)
He wrote hits for B.J. Thomas, Brenda Lee and Elvis Presley, including "Hooked on a Feeling", "Always on My Mind", and Presley's hit single "Suspicious
Mark_James_(songwriter)
American television documentary unit
Investigates Crime & Punishment Lockup To Catch a Predator Warrior Nation Hooked (Tattoos Head to Toe and Muscle Women) Caught on Camera The Assassination
MS_NOW_Films
2023 Canadian romantic drama series
com. 2026-02-25. Retrieved 2026-02-25. Kelly, Katie (2023-03-20). "'It hooked me pretty deeply': Actor Scott Patterson thrilled with premiere of 'Sullivan's
Sullivan's Crossing (TV series)
Sullivan's_Crossing_(TV_series)
Canadian actress
Hooked in House (retrieved July 19, 2011) Taylor, Kate, "Adaptation of Corbeil novel earns ins Wing"; The Globe and Mail, November 11, 2002 Hooked in
Nicky_Guadagni
1972 single by Mac Davis
"Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" is a hit song by country and pop singer-songwriter Mac Davis. From his breakthrough album of the same name, the song reached
Baby_Don't_Get_Hooked_on_Me
16th episode of the 5th season of How I Met Your Mother
disambiguation. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › "Hooked" is the 16th episode of the fifth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your
Hooked (How I Met Your Mother)
Hooked_(How_I_Met_Your_Mother)
1961 painting by Roy Lichtenstein
Look Mickey (also known as Look Mickey!) is a 1961 oil on canvas painting by Roy Lichtenstein. Widely regarded as the bridge between his abstract expressionism
Look_Mickey
American actress (born 1997)
2019). "On the Brink of Her First Major Film, Sydney Sweeney Has Hollywood Hooked". Coveteur. Archived from the original on February 2, 2020. Retrieved June
Sydney_Sweeney
1970 studio album by Grand Funk Railroad
Side two No. Title Length 1. "I Don't Have to Sing the Blues" 4:35 2. "Hooked on Love" 7:10 3. "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" 10:09
Closer_to_Home
AI-generated web series
Lisa (March 25, 2026). AI 'Love Island' with fruit has TikTok viewers hooked. CNN. Retrieved March 25, 2026. Jeanfrancios, Moses (March 24, 2026). "'Fruit
Fruit_Love_Island
Hooked on Winning is a 1982 album by the Maddy Prior band. Subsequent to its original release on vinyl on Kempire Records KMPA001 and then Plant Life,
Hooked_on_Winning
1972 studio album by Mac Davis
Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me is the third album by singer-songwriter and actor Mac Davis, which was considered his breakthrough album released in 1972
Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me (album)
Baby_Don't_Get_Hooked_on_Me_(album)
Indian actress (born 1983)
thriller that will keep you hooked Movie Review". 'Identity': Tovino Thomas leads a twist-filled thriller that will keep you hooked | Movie Review. Retrieved
Trisha_Krishnan
Indian Music Duo
Beat Records breaks records and how". www.millenniumpost.in. "People Are Hooked To The Song 'Junoon' By Mitraz, Directed By Yatendra Meghwal". Outlook India
Mitraz
Musical artist
singles from Hooked in early 2009 Music Week wrote "Nature of the Crime is an effortless pop song which oozes Motown class." All Yours (2005) Hooked (2008)
Sophie_Delila
Ninth letter of the Latin alphabet
baseline and a cap height serif, while the lowercase L generally has a hooked ascender and a baseline serif. The dot over the lowercase 'i' is sometimes
I
Part of the pancreas
pancreas. The word "uncinate" comes from the Latin "uncinatus", meaning "hooked". The pancreas arises as two separate bodies, the dorsal pancreas and the
Uncinate_process_of_pancreas
English actor and director (born 1962)
and reunited with Binoche. David Ansen of Newsweek wrote, "once you're hooked, it never loses its grip on your emotions. A great deal of the credit belongs
Ralph_Fiennes
2007 video game
Hooked! Real Motion Fishing is a fishing video game for the Wii video game console, released on October 30, 2007. The game supports Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Hooked!_Real_Motion_Fishing
Species of flowering plant
species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name hooked pincushionplant. The plant is native to the coastal mountains and valleys
Navarretia_hamata
Species of squid
Moroteuthopsis ingens, the greater hooked squid, is a species of squid in the family Onychoteuthidae. It occurs worldwide in subantarctic oceans. M. ingens
Moroteuthopsis_ingens
American actor (1920–2002)
and heavies. He is best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving, iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michel in Dick Tracy's Dilemma. Following a spell on Broadway
Jack_Lambert_(American_actor)
2025 Indian Telugu film by Ugandhar Muni
without confusion. He delivers a genre-driven experience that keeps audiences hooked from the opening frame." Suresh Kavirayani from Cinema Express gave the
Shambhala_(2025_film)
British actress (1934–2024)
Maggie Smiths". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 June 2021. Kael, Pauline. Hooked, pp. 410–411. "Hook". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 3 June 2024. Ganz, Jami
Maggie_Smith
South Korean boy band
subsidiary of JYP. They debuted on April 13, 2026, with the single album 1.Got Hooked: An Addictive Symphony, with the title track, "Hook", being produced by
Modyssey
2006 studio album by Toto
"Dying on My Feet", "Hooked", "Let it Go", and "No End in Sight"; sound design on "Falling in Between", "King of the World", "Hooked", "Taint Your World"
Falling_in_Between
Logging tool
A cant hook, pike, or hooked pike is a traditional logging tool consisting of a wooden lever handle with a movable metal hook called a dog at one end,
Cant_hook
Ethnic stereotype
described the supposed Jewish nose as "a large, massive, club-shaped, hooked nose." Another anatomist, Jerome Webster, described it in 1914 as having
Jewish_nose
American television series (2016–2025)
Black. In a September 2016 analysis, Netflix found that Stranger Things "hooked" viewers by the second episode of the first season, indicating that the
Stranger_Things
American singer (1942–2021)
pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Popular songs by Thomas include "Hooked on a Feeling" (1968), "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (1969), "(Hey
B._J._Thomas
HOOKED
HOOKED
Boy/Male
Australian, Latin, Welsh
Fighting Chief; Fierce; Hooked One
Surname or Lastname
English (southern)
English (southern) : from Middle English hoke, Old English hÅc ‘hook’, in any of a variety of senses: as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made and sold hooks as agricultural implements or employed them in his work; as a topographic name for someone who lived by a ‘hook’ of land, i.e. the bend of a river or the spur of a hill; or as a nickname (in part a survival of an Old English byname) for someone with a hunched back or a hooked nose. A similar ambiguity of interpretation presents itself in the case of Crook. In some cases the surname may be habitational from any of various places named Hook(e), from this word, as for example in Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey, Wiltshire, and Worcestershire.Swedish (Hö(ö)k) : nickname or a metonymic occupational name from hök ‘hawk’, a soldier’s name.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Greek, Irish, Latin, Welsh
A Fox; Chief; Lord; Hooked Nose
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old Norse byname Haki (cognate with Hook), given originally to someone with a hunched figure or a hooked nose.North German : variant of Haack.Dutch and North German : from the Germanic personal name Hac(c)o, a short form of a compound name beginning with the element hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Hacke.
Boy/Male
Australian, Welsh
Fighting Chief; Fierce; Hooked One
HOOKED
HOOKED
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Night-comer; Morning Star
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Moonbeam
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Dutch, French, Netherlands, Swedish
Rock; Famous Landowner
Girl/Female
Indian
The beautiful woman, Beautiful jewel
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Red
Boy/Male
Indian
Continuous; Without Break
Boy/Male
Tamil
Satisfaction
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Lord Krishna
Boy/Male
Tamil
Megh Nad | மேக-நாத
Roar of clouds, Thunder
Boy/Male
Indian
Judge
HOOKED
HOOKED
HOOKED
HOOKED
HOOKED
a.
Provided with a hook or hooks.
n.
A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
v. t.
A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
a.
Hooked; bent at the tip in the form of a hook; as, an uncinate process.
n.
A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
v. i.
Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher.
a.
Having a hooked or aquiline nose.
a.
Hooklike; hooked.
n.
A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
a.
Hooked or crooked in an extreme degree.
n.
Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.
v. t.
A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
a.
Not falcated, or hooked.
imp. & p. p.
of Hook
n.
A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.
a.
Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
n.
The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
a.
Somewhat hooked or curved.
n.
A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.
a.
Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.