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A hook on a construction crane

Hook may refer to:

• Any device which attaches to an object, and attempts to draw it towards the place the hook is attached
  • Cabin hook, A bar fixed to a staple with a right angled end that is held in a screw eye to hold a door open
  • Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to give traction on a distant object (such as a wall, tree or a vehicle) by snagging on its edge or corner when thrown
  • Lanyard hook, A springy flat stock wire item formed wide at one end, narrow at the other. It opens inward with thumb pressure and stays closed by the temper of the wire.
  • Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
  • Siege hook, a weapon used in medieval and classical siege warfare to tear down walls in fortifications
  • Sister Hook, Two overlapping metal hooks hinged to form a heart outline when open. Used as a clasp.
  • One part of a hook-and-eye, a type of textile closure.
• In music:
  • Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
  • Hook (song), a Blues Traveler song
• In sport:
  • Hook (boxing), a boxing punch in which the arm is swung bent
  • Hook shot a type of shot in basketball.
  • Fish hook, a device used to catch fish.
  • A slang term for a curveball in baseball.
  • Hook, a type of golf shot
• In language:
  • Hook (rhetoric)
  • Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark in the Vietnamese alphabet
  • Narrative hook, a type of plot device in screenwriting and literature
• As in Captain Hook:
  • Captain Hook, a fictional villain from J. M. Barrie\'s Peter Pan, a children\'s novel
  • Hook (film), a 1991 motion picture sequel to the Peter Pan books and stageplay starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts and Bob Hoskins
  • Hook (video game), video games based on the film
  • Abu Hamza, a radical Muslim Cleric known in the British tabloid press as \'Hook\' or \'Captain Hook\', so named for the hook in place of his missing right hand, currently serving a prison sentence for incitement of racial hatred.
• Hook (Transformers), a Constructicon surgical engineer and truck crane in the Transformers universe
• 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
• "Hook-and-loop" fasteners such as Velcro
• Hooking, a computer programming technique used in event handling
• Tailhook, an implement on navy aircraft to allow safe carrier landing.
• Eye bolt (or eye hook), a device used to connect string.
• The Hook, a classic urban legend.

Placenames

• Hoek van Holland or Hook of Holland, in the Netherlands
• Hook Head, Ireland
• Hook, New Zealand and the Hook River
• In the United States:
  • Bombay Hook, Delaware (Boomties Hoek)
  • Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania (Maratties Hoek)
  • Sandy Hook, New Jersey (Sant Hoek)
  • Red Hook, New York (Roode Hoek)
• In the United Kingdom:
  • Hook, Cambridgeshire
  • Hook, Devon
  • Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire
  • Hook, London
  • Hook, Hart (north Hampshire)
  • Hook-with-Warsash (south Hampshire)
  • Hook, North Yorkshire
  • Hook, Pembrokeshire
  • Hook, Wiltshire
  • Hook Bank
  • Hook End
  • Hook Green
  • Hook Heath
  • Hook Norton
  • Hook Park
  • Hook Street
  • Hookagate
  • Hook\'s Cross
  • Hook-on-Rupom

See also

• Hook (surname)
• Hooked (disambiguation)
• Hook (company)

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