What does the word hooked mean?

    Part of speech: adjective

  • Curved like a hook.

  • Part of speech: adjective

  • Supplied with a hook.

  • Part of speech: adjective

  • Fastened by a hook.

Usage examples for hooked

  1. With a sniff Lucy withdrew, her fingers still hooked in the collar of her tearful son. – Ralestone Luck by Andre Norton
  2. I saw, but the other day, a fish hooked cleverly enough, by throwing to an inch where he ought to have been, and indeed was, and from the only point whence the throw could be made. – Prose Idylls by Charles Kingsley
  3. The hooked arm moved a trifle, and then was still. – From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White
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