Crossword-Solution: CROOK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crook | n. | A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. |
| Crook | n. | Any implement having a bent or crooked end. |
| Crook | n. | The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. |
| Crook | n. | A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff. |
| Crook | n. | A pothook. |
| Crook | n. | An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. |
| Crook | n. | A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. |
| Crook | n. | A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. |
| Crook | n. | To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. |
| Crook | n. | To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. |
| Crook | v. i. | To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CROOK | anagram | ROCKO |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with CROOK (5)
Long experience had so precisely taught the animal the difference between such exclamations as “Come in!” and “D—— ye, come in!” that he knew to a hair’s breadth the rate of trotting back from the ewes’ tails that each call involved, if a staggerer with the sheep-crook was to be escaped.
Among the passengers there was an American named Condon, a noted blackleg and crook who was “wanted” in a half dozen of the larger cities of the United States.
You are a crook! Do not try to tell me that you are not.” “He is worse than a crook,” said a quiet voice close behind them.
Here is his reply: ‘The most dangerous crook in Chicago.’ On the very evening upon which I had his answer, Hilton Cubitt sent me the last message from Slaney.
For a gruff word, for an awkward movement in lading the pianos, for a surly look or a muttered oath, the dentist's elbow would crook and his hand contract to a mallet-like fist.
Quotes with CROOK (3)
One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every day for the past week, and everyone knows you stare at me all day in school, if you have something you want to say to me why don't you just say it to my face instead of sneaking around like a crook?" I considered my options. Either I could run away and never go back to school again, maybe even leave the country as a stowaway on a ship bound for Australia. Or I could risk everyth…
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 75 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).