CROOK
\kɹˈʊk], \kɹˈʊk], \k_ɹ_ˈʊ_k]\
Definitions of CROOK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
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bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
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Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
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The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
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A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
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An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
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A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
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A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
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To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
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To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
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To bend.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A bend, anything bent: a staff bent at the end, as a shepherd's or bishop's: an artifice or trick.
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To bend or form into a hook: to turn from the straight line or from what is right.
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To bend or be bent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To bend; make or grow crooked.
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A bend or curve; something crooked, as a staff with a hooked end.
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A criminal; sharper.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A bend; anything bent; a shepherd's staff, curving at the end; the staff of a bishop, considered as a shepherd: a pothook; an artifice or trick.
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To bend; to make a curve or hook; to turn from rectitude.
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To bend or be bent; to be turned from a direct line. By hook or by crook, by right means or by wrong.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Anything bent; a curve; a shepherd's staff curved at the end.
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To bend; to curve; to turn from a straight line.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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