hooked

Verb

• fasten with a hook
• rip off; ask an unreasonable price
• make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
• hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
• take by theft
• make off with belongings of others
• hit with a hook
  • "His opponent hooked him badly"
• catch with a hook
• to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
• secure with the foot
• entice and trap
• approach with an offer of sexual favors
• simple past and past participle of hook

Adjective Satellite

• curved down like an eagle's beak
• addicted to a drug
• having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold)

Adj

• Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.
• Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.

Examples

• a hooked nose
• He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies.
• You only have to try heroin once to become hooked.

Synonyms

abstract, accost, addict, aquiline, cabbage, cop, crochet, dependant, dependent, drug-addicted, filch, fleece, gazump, glom, hook, hooklike, knock off, lift, nobble, overcharge, pilfer, pinch, pluck, plume, purloin, rob, snare, snarf, sneak, snitch, soak, solicit, strung-out, surcharge, swipe, thieve, addicted, bent, crooked, curved

Antonyms

undercharge, unhook

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