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hooked

[ hookt ]

adjective

  1. bent like a hook; hook-shaped.
  2. having a hook or hooks.
  3. made with a hook or by hooking.
  4. Informal.
    1. addicted to narcotic drugs.
    2. slavishly interested in, devoted to, or obsessed with:

      He was hooked on television.

  5. Slang. married.


hooked

/ ˈhʊkɪdnɪs; hʊkt /

adjective

  1. bent like a hook
  2. having a hook or hooks
  3. caught or trapped
  4. a slang word for married
  5. slang.
    addicted to a drug
  6. often foll by on obsessed (with)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • hookedness, noun
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Other Word Forms

  • Ǵǰ··Ա [hook, -id-nis], noun
  • ܲ·Ǵǰ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hooked1

before 1000; Middle English hoked, Old English ō. See hook 1, -ed 2, -ed 3
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Significantly overweight from comforting herself with food, she was never adopted, according to Florida Weekly, instead getting hooked on drugs when she was in high school.

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I started dancing by accident because my friend wanted to take a dance class, so I went along, and within two classes I was hooked.

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"I just don't see any merit to dying slow and painfully, hooked up with stuff - intubation, feeding tubes," he told me.

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A few days later, she had to laugh when a man in a silver Tesla Cybertruck rolled up with the enormous trailer hooked behind.

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“I figured if it sucked I wouldn’t be locked in and could bail at any time. Luckily, I was completely hooked after the first practice,” she says.

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