What is the meaning of BY HOOK-OR-CROOK. Phrases containing BY HOOK-OR-CROOK
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Book. I've read the new fish by Deighton.
Captain Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for book. Captain Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
On the hook is slang for waiting. On the hook is slang for in a dangerous or difficult situation.
To do any way possible.
Book
Docker's hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Thomas Cook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
Cook is slang for to happen.Cook is slang for to prepare drugs by heating.
Hoon is Australian slang for a lout, hooligan or disreputable youth. Hoon was Australian slang for a pimp.
A chicken. e.g. "Did you cook that chook for tucker mum?"
Joe Hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for book. Joe Hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for crook.
Kook is American slang for an eccentric or crazy person.
Butcher's hook is London Cockney rhyming slang for look.
The ship's anchor. eg. "We pulled into the bay and dropped the hook for the night."
Rookery nook is London Cockney rhyming slang for a book.
Peter Cook was 's London Cockney rhyming slang for book.
One way or other, by any expedient. "It can't be done by hook or crook.â€
Absent onself from school with no viable excuse. Used in the phrase "going on the hook.
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v. t.
To express or manifest by a look.
n.
See Eccentric, and V-hook.
v. i.
To bend; to curve as a hook.
a.
Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
a.
Provided with a hook or hooks.
n.
The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
v. t.
To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
v. t.
To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
n.
The book used by a prompter of a theater.
n.
Anything resembling a hood in form or use
v. t.
To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
n.
A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
adv.
Aside; as, to lay by; to put by.
v. t.
To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.
n.
Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.
v. t.
To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
v. t.
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
v. t.
To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.
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Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc.
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