hooks

hook

1. noun, slang A means of captivating or attracting others, especially a potential customer or consumer; a gimmick. The movie's hook at the time was its incredible computer-generated graphics. Unfortunately, the visual effects look pretty laughable by today's standards. You've always got to have a hook when you're trying to sell something.
2. verb, slang To attract (someone). The company offers a huge range of benefits in order to hook the most talented people in the industry.
3. verb, slang To captivate (someone). Her latest novel hooked me from the very first page.
4. verb, informal To addict (someone). He got hooked on heroin in college.
5. verb, informal To prostitute oneself. It's not uncommon to see women hooking in this area at night.

hooks

slang One's hands. Get your damn hooks off of me—who do you think you are? I can never open tiny clasps like this with these giant hooks of mine.
See also: hook
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hooks

n. the hands. (see also meathooks. Probably a shortening of shit hooks.) Don’t stand there with your hooks in your pocket. Get busy!
See also: hook
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • junk
  • Junk it!
  • juice
  • juiced
  • belt
  • belted
  • belting
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
References in periodicals archive
Onboard Systems International, LLC designs and manufactures innovative helicopter lift equipment for the worldwide aerospace industry, including belly hooks, cargo hook suspension systems, Onboard Weighing Systems, and remote hook equipment.
Similarly, Task Forces of Bannu-2 Division recovered Rs 0.43 Million from defaulters and removed 38 direct hooks.
When using hooks and eyes to secure a shirt opening, a centered application is more common so the fabric edges abut when the hooks and eyes are fastened (9).
A high proportion of walleyes were caught using small baited hooks on passive lines, resulting in frequent deep-hooking.
When fishing for kingfish and wahoo, Lemieux skips the bridle and embeds the hooks directly into the flesh of the bait.
A boat captain came to the rescue of a seven-foot shark with a rusty hook stuck in its mouth last month off Sanibel Island in Florida.
"As a leading supplier of spreader beams, lifting beams, coil lifters and bar tongs within the marketplace, the Harrington below-the-hook product line allows us to provide additional hook options to our customers," says Joseph Collins, founder of Hoists Direct.
Numerous studies of the recreational use of circle hooks in teleost fisheries and the commercial pelagic longline fishery indicate that fewer fish are "deep hooked" on circle hooks and that catch efficiency with circle hooks is equal to, or better than, that with J hooks (Cooke and Suski, 2004; Serafy et al., 2012).
While hook strength is one aspect, sharpness is another and although many hooks can be sharpened to some extent, it is better to change no-brand hooks to a quality product such as Gamakatsu.
The time and the place for hooks is when and where your serve or shot will be more effective with a hook applied to it.
The partnership, backed by Texas' biggest energy groups, argued that a four-year statute of limitations on fraud cases kicked in before Hooks filed his suit, and that mineral owners should take more initiative in auditing their royalty payments.
Gnathorhynch eukalyptorhynchs and schizorhynchs have independently evolved, well-developed, fully sheathed, and retractable proboscides that are armed with stout hooks used as pincers to capture prey (Meixner, 1928; Karling, 1961; Doe, 1976; Rieger et al, 1991).
A More than likely the problem is caused by wear or damage to the hammer hooks on your trigger.
A DOG who wolfed down TWELVE razor sharp fishing hooks and survived has been dubbed the "miracle mutt".