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Definition crook

Etymology 1

From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *cr?c (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-Germanic *kr?kaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”). Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).

Noun

crook (plural crooks)

1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
2. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
3. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
4. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
5. (obsolete) A gibbet.
6. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
7. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
8. A bishop's staff of office.
9. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
10. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
11. A pothook.
12. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

Verb

crook (third-person singular simple present crooks, present participle crooking, simple past and past participle crooked)

1. (transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
2. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Etymology 2

From crooked (“dishonestly come by”).

Adjective

crook (comparative crooker, superlative crookest)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.

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