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Hook Wiki Information
Tools, hardware and fasteners
- Cabin hook, a hooked bar that engages into an eye screw, used on doors
- Fish hook, a device used to catch fish
- Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target
- Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
- Siege hook, a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege
- Part of a hook-and-eye closure, a clothing fastener
- Part of a hook-and-loop fastener, used in Velcro
Media and entertainment
- Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
- "Hook" (song), a song by Blues Traveler
- Hook
(film), a 1991 fantasy continuation of J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
- * Hook
(video game), four video games based on the film
- Hook (Transformers
), several characters in the Transformers
universe
- Hook (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
- The Hook, a classic urban legend
- The Hook
(newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper
- Captain Hook, a fictional villain from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
- Get the hook, a theatrical term
Athletics
- Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
- Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
- Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
- Curveball, a type of baseball pitch
- A method of hitting a golf ball
Language
- Hook (rhetoric), a rhetorical device that "hooks" the listener
- Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark in the Vietnamese alphabet
- Narrative hook, a literary technique
Places
- Hook, New Zealand
- Hook River, New Zealand
- Hook of Holland, the Netherlands
United Kingdom
- Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Hook, Hart, in north Hampshire
- Hook, London
- Hook, Pembrokeshire
- Hook, Wiltshire
- Hook-with-Warsash, in south Hampshire
Other meanings
- Hooking, a computer programming technique
- Telephone hook, a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
- Prosthetic hook, a crude hand prosthesis
- Bondage hook, a device used in sexual bondage play
- Tailhook, a device on an aircraft
- Abu Hamza, a Sunni Muslim leader known as "Hook" in the British tabloid press
- Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter
See also
- Hook (surname)
- Hooke
- Hooked (disambiguation)
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