Synonyms of the word

hooking

• v. present participle of hook.
• n. (ice hockey) The penalized action of using one's stick to restrain an opponent.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

hook

• n. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other…
• n. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
• n. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
• n. (informal) A ship's anchor.
• n. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
• n. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
• n. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
• n. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make…
• n. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
• n. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the…
• n. (baseball) A curveball.
• n. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice,…
• n. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket,…
• n. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly…
• n. (slang) A jack (the playing card).
• n. (typography, rare) A háček.
• n. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter…
• n. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
• n. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
• n. A snare; a trap.
• n. A field sown two years in succession.
• n. (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
• n. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook…
• v. (transitive) To attach a hook to.
• v. (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
• v. (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
• v. (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
• v. (transitive) To ensnare someone, as if with a hook.
• v. (Britain, US, slang, archaic) To steal.
• v. (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
• v. (usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.
• v. (cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
• v. (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated…
• v. (field hockey, ice hockey) To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick…
• v. (soccer) To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
• v. (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
• v. (bridge, slang) To finesse.
• v. (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
• v. (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.

swing

• v. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
• v. (intransitive) To dance.
• v. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
• v. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
• v. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
• v. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
• v. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than…
• v. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
• v. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
• v. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
• v. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
• v. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
• v. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
• n. The manner in which something is swung.
• n. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
• n. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
• n. A dance style.
• n. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
• n. The amount of change towards or away from something.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
• n. The diameter that a lathe can cut.
• n. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
• n. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
• n. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in…
• n. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.
• n. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.