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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hooks, meat hooks, maulersnoun

    large strong hand (as of a fighter)

    "wait till I get my hooks on him"

ChatGPT

  1. hooks

    Hooks are a type of fastening device that are typically curved or angled and used to catch, hold or pull objects. In programming, hooks refer to functions or routines that allow the customization or modification of the system or application behavior by intercepting function or method calls, events, or messages. In music, a hook is a catchy melody or phrase that makes a song memorable.

Wikidata

  1. Hooks

    Hooks is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,769 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Texarkana, Texas - Texarkana, Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. hooks

    Pieces of bent iron fixed to the transom plates of a field-carriage are so called. They serve to fix the bricoles or ropes for drawing it occasionally backwards or forwards.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HOOKS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hooks is ranked #2125 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Hooks surname appeared 17,053 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 6 would have the surname Hooks.

    48.7% or 8,318 total occurrences were White.
    45.3% or 7,727 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 488 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.3% or 399 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.3% or 63 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 56 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooks in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of hooks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of hooks in a Sentence

  1. Michael Vecchione:

    In some squids, those suckers develop into hooks, but theyre not like the hooks that are in the belemnoids. They probably function very similarly --theyre used to grab hold of soft things that you cant grab hold of with a sucker.

  2. Isaiah:

    And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

  3. Aaron Yeager:

    Think how cool it would be if another angler hooks that fish in the fall and sets a new state record.

  4. Dean Lomax:

    We could see tiny hook-shaped features that were actually the hooks from the tentacles of squid, so we know what its last meal was.

  5. Melissa Rosales:

    We had a lot of shaking of pots and pans, but they're up on hooks so they didn't go anywhere.

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