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Crook

Crook Meaning & Definition
Crook Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crook?

[n] a long staff with one end being hook shaped
[n] someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
[n] a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
[v] bend or cause to bend

Synonyms | Synonyms for Crook: bend | criminal | curve | felon | malefactor | outlaw | shepherd's crook | turn

Related Terms | Find terms related to Crook: aberrancy | aberration | advocate | alpenstock | andiron | angle | angle off | apex | appropriate | arc | arch | arm | athletic supporter | back | backbone | backing | bad person | bandeau | baton | bear off | bearer | beat | bend | bend back | bent | betrayer | bias | bifurcate | bifurcation | bight | bilk | blackleg | body snatcher | booster | bow | bra | brace | bracer | bracket | branch | branching off | brassiere | buckle | buttress | caduceus | cane | cant | carrier | catacaustic | catenary | caustic | cervix | chain | chain of office | cheat | cheater | chevron | chicken thief | chisel | chiseler | chouse | circle | circuitousness | clout | coal tongs | coin | con man | conchoid | contort | convict | coon | cop | corner | corset | cozen | cozener | crane | crank | criminal | crosier | cross | cross-staff | crotchet | crumple | crutch | crutch-stick | curl | curve | damper | deceiver | declination | decurve | deflect | deflection | defraud | defrauder | delinquent | den of thieves | departure | desperado | desperate criminal | detour | deviance | deviancy | deviate | deviation | deviousness | diacaustic | diddle | diddler | diffract | diffuse | digression | discursion | disperse | distort | divagate | divagation | divarication | diverge | divergence | diversion | divert | do | dogleg | dome | double | double-dealer | drift | drifting | elbow | ell | ellipse | embezzler | embow | errantry | evildoer | excursion | excursus | exorbitation | fasces | felon | festoon | filch | filcher | fire hook | fire tongs | firedog | flex | flimflam man | flimflammer | fork | foundation garment | fugitive | fulcrum | furcate | furcation | gallows bird | ganef | gangster | gaolbird | gavel | ghoul | girdle | grafter | grate | grating | grave robber | grid | griddle | gridiron | grill | griller | guy | guywire | gyp artist | gypper | hairpin | handstaff | heist | hook | hump | hunch | hyperbola | incurvate | incurve | indirection | inflect | inflection | jailbird | jewel thief | jock | jockstrap | Judas | juggler | keys | knee | knot | L | land pirate | land shark | land-grabber | larcener | larcenist | lawbreaker | lifter | lituus | loop | lurch | mace | mainstay | maintainer | Malacca cane | malefactor | malevolent | malfeasant | malfeasor | mantle | mast | misfeasor | miter | mobster | nab | neck | nook | oblique | obliquity | outlaw | pallium | parabola | pastoral staff | paterissa | peculator | pererration | petty thief | pilferer | pinch | poacher | point | poker | portfolio | pothook | prop | prowler | public enemy | pull | purloiner | quarterstaff | quisling | quoin | racketeer | rambling | recurve | red hat | reflect | reflex | refract | reinforce | reinforcement | reinforcer | rest | resting place | retroflex | rigging | ring | robber | rod | rod of office | round | sag | salamander | scatter | scepter | scofflaw | screw | scrounger | sheer | shift | shifting | shifting course | shifting path | shillelagh | shoplifter | shoulder | shroud | sinner | sinus | skew | slant | slue | sneak thief | spine | spit | spring | sprit | staff | standing rigging | stave | stay | steal | stealer | stick | stiffener | straying | strengthener | support | supporter | sustainer | swag | swagger stick | swanking stick | sway | sweep | swerve | swerving | swindle | swindler | swinging | tack | thief | thug | tiara | tongs | tracery | traitor | transgressor | triple crown | tripod | trivet | truncheon | turn | turn awry | turning | turnspit | twist | two-timer | upholder | variation | vault | veer | vertex | villain | walking stick | wand | wand of office | wandering | warp | white-collar thief | wind | worker of ill | wrench | wrest | wring | writhe | wrongdoer | yaw | zag | zig | zigzag

See Also | abductor | accessary | accessory | arsonist | bend | bight | Billie the Kid | blackmailer | Bonney | bootlegger | briber | coconspirator | conspirator | contrabandist | curve | curved shape | desperado | desperate criminal | drug dealer | drug peddler | drug trafficker | extortioner | extortionist | firebug | flex | fugitive | fugitive from justice | gangster | gangster's moll | goon | gun moll | habitual criminal | highbinder | highjacker | hijacker | hood | hoodlum | incendiary | James | Jesse James | kidnapper | law offender | lawbreaker | liquidator | MacGregor | machinator | mafioso | manslayer | mobster | moll | mooncurser | moonshiner | murderer | offender | parolee | peddler | plotter | probationer | punk | pusher | racketeer | raper | rapist | recidivist | recurve | repeater | Rob Roy | Robert MacGregor | runner | scofflaw | smuggler | snatcher | staff | stealer | strong-armer | suborner | thief | thug | tough | toughie | traitor | treasonist | violator | William H. Bonney | wrongdoer

Crook In Webster's Dictionary

\Crook\ (kr[oo^]k), n. [OE. crok; akin to Icel. kr[onac]kr hook, bend, SW. krok, Dan. krog, OD. krooke; or cf. Gael. crocan crook, hook, W. crwca crooked. Cf. {Crosier}, {Crotchet}, {Crutch}, {Encroach}.] 1. A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. --Phaer. 2. Any implement having a bent or crooked end. Especially: (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.

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