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Meaning and definition for "crook" word
[noun] someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
[noun] a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
[verb] bend or cause to bend
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(a) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
(b) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. {Pastoral staff}. He left his crook, he left his flocks. --Prior. 3. A pothook. ``As black as the crook.'' --Sir W. Scott. 4. An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks. --Cranmer. 5. (Mus.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. [Cant, U.S.] {By hook or by crook}, in some way or other; by fair means or foul.
\Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crooked} (kr??kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crooking}.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr?ka, Dan. kr?ge. See Crook, n.] 1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak. 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. --Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon.
\Crook\, v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. `` The port . . . crooketh like a bow.'' --Phaer. Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards. --Camden.
Synonyms for crook
bend, criminal, curve, felon, malefactor, outlaw, shepherd's crook, turn
See also: accessary | arsonist | blackmailer | Bonney | desperate criminal | flex | fugitive | gangster | gun moll | hijacker | hoodlum | Jesse James | lawbreaker | MacGregor | machinator | mooncurser | moonshiner | parolee | raper | rapist | recidivist | scofflaw | suborner | thief | treasonist |
Related terms: beat, body snatcher, bra, branch, branching off, cane, cheater, circle, coin, convict, filch, firedog, fire hook, furcate, gaolbird, heist, jailbird, mast, pastoral staff, petty thief, red hat, reflect, reinforce, rest, robber, supporter, thug, turn, turning, two-timer
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Let's analyse "crook" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: KOORC. Average typing speed for these characters is 1295 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
crook: 6 + 6 = 12, reduced: 3 . and the final result is Three. |
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