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hooker(dictionary)
hooker(2)(dictionary)
hooker(1)(dictionary)
hooker(medicine)
Hooker's green(dictionary)
Hooker, Charles(medicine)
Hooker, Joseph(encyclopedia)
Hooker, Richard(encyclopedia)
Hooker, Thomas(encyclopedia)

hooker(1) (iou)



hooker noun1. M16.
[from HOOK verb + -ER1.]
I.
A thief (orig., who snatched things using a hook). slang. M16.
A prostitute. colloq. M19.
Rugby Football. A player in the front row of the scrummage whose function it is to obtain the ball for his team by hooking it. E20.
II. gen.
A person who or thing which hooks. M19.