crook

Meaning of crook

noun
  1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
    She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
  2. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
  3. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
    the crook of a cane
  4. A lock or curl of hair.
  5. A gibbet.
  6. A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
  7. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
  8. A bishop's staff of office.
  9. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
  10. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
  11. A pothook.
  12. A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
verb
  1. To bend, or form into a hook.
    He crooked his finger toward me.
  2. To become bent or hooked.
  3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
adjective
  1. Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
    Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
  2. Ill, sick.
    I′m feeling a bit crook.
  3. Annoyed, angry; upset.
    be crook at/about; go crook at

Information about crook

  • The plural form of crook is: crooks.
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Hyphenation of crook

crook

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • crook is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

crook synonyms

Meaning criminal:

criminal, felon, outlaw, malefactor

Meaning bend:

bend, twist, turn

Meaning curve:

curve

Translation of crook

Words that rhyme with crook

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