hooks Theme: HANDS n. the hands.Get your hooks off my newspaper!Don't stand there with your hooks in your pocket. Get busy!
hooks noun in electric and telephone line work, climbing irons US, 1980
idiomhooksget your hooks into someoneto get involved in someone's life so that you can control them:The banks are always trying to lend you money, because once they've got their hooks into you you're stuck.She might have got her greedy little hooks into my father but she won't get them into me.
hooksslang One's hands. Get your damn hooks off of me—who do you think you are? I can never open tiny clasps like this with these giant hooks of mine. hooks n. the hands. (see also meathooks. Probably a shortening of shit hooks.) Don’t stand there with your hooks in your pocket. Get busy! |