Hooking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HOOKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• attach or fasten with a hook or hooks
• bend into the shape of a hook so as to fasten around or to an object
• catch with a hook
• attract and hold the attention of; captivate
• steal
• hit (the ball) round to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height; hit a ball delivered by (the bowler) with such a stroke.
• strike (the ball) so that it deviates in the direction of the follow-through, typically inadvertently.
• secure (the ball) and pass it backwards with the foot in the scrum.
• run away
• (of a woman) work as a prostitute.
• punch one's opponent with the elbow bent and rigid
NOUN:
• an illegal move in hockey involving the blade of a stick
• a piece of metal or other hard material curved or bent back at an angle, for catching hold of or hanging things on
• a bent piece of metal, typically barbed and baited, for catching fish.
• a catchy chorus or repeated instrumental passage in a piece of popular music
• a curved cutting instrument, especially as used for reaping or shearing.
• a short swinging punch made with the elbow bent and rigid, especially in boxing
• a stroke made to the on side with a horizontal or slightly upward swing of the bat at shoulder height.
• a stroke which makes the ball deviate in flight in the direction of the follow-through (from right to left for a right-handed player), typically inadvertently.
• a curved stroke in handwriting.
• an added stroke transverse to the stem in the symbol for a quaver or other note.
• a curved promontory or sand spit.
• act of hooking
• a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
• a thing designed to catch people's attention
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to catch with a hook (a bent piece of metal)
• an illegal move in hockey involving the blade of the stick

Words related to HOOKING

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How to use HOOKING in a sentence

• On this bar she used to swing head downwards, just hooking her knees around it, as all the trapeze artists do.
• They surged onward, bawling, crowding, trampling, hooking without mercy.
• From time to time one propelled his craft ashore by hooking to and pushing against other logs.
• On that rock the line of the lariat caught, hooking the swimmers sharply in toward the bank.
• You now ought to be able to turn around and go back on the same road with one fire by simply hooking the lever up as short as it will allow to do the work.
• He went on casting his line, moving from stone to stone, dropping down the bank, ascending it, as if the hooking of a trout was something to him.
• This is done by hooking the lower block of a powerful purchase in a portion of the substance, and then cutting a strip of convenient size, and heaving on the fall at the windlass.
• Pete swayed back as the horse came down in a mighty leap forward, and hooking his spurs in the cinch, rocked to each leap and lunge like a leaf caught up in a desert whirlwind.
• Hooking takes place on an inner level and can not be explained with words.
• His remains, having come there for burial, and not appearing to like the idea, had taken the liberty of stepping out on the edge of the evening, and hooking it.
• The old dowager began at once to angle for him, and succeeded in hooking him.
• I thought of Malebranche hooking the miserable souls that tried to escape back again into the boiling pitch.
• You could practice hooking it around my neck and when the fateful hour came you could bring the double-dyed villain to her knees with one swoop.
• It was rather in the hooking of men of the stamp of the Hon.
• He jumped and by hooking his hands over the edge of the opening, was able to work his way up and out, to face a small line of light.
• Tom grabbed him as best he could, hooking onto his belt.
• They were hooking a ride back to Atom City, and they were asleep in the cargo hold.
• It was not very good stock with which to begin life on a farm, but the monotony was relieved by a hooking, kicking cow, and a horse which broke wagons to splinters.
• This leaves one end of each stick free, hooking over the hemisphere described by the thread and the stick.
• Hooking the ground with his stiffened arms he crawls, long and flat as a boat.
• He knew all their haunts and lurking places, and was always hooking about on mysterious voyages.
• What they do is to work the upper jaw and then the lower, hooking their teeth into their food, pulling back with each half of the jaw in turn.
• When he had finished, he sauntered up to the wooden bridge that led to the bathing cabins and sat down on the upper rail, hooking one foot behind the lower one.
• Howat pictured the long, supple hands of the Italian hooking Mrs.
• Screw relapsed into silence, and sat for some minutes, hooking one leg behind the other, and thrusting as much of his hands into his pockets as those receptacles would contain.
• I have studied it for hours, but cannot understand how he can grip a club as he does without hooking his ball.
• Bill tested the strength of the kite once by hooking a spring scale to the kite string.

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