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Hooker   /hˈʊkər/   Listen
Hooker

noun
1.
United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879).  Synonyms: Fighting Joe Hooker, Joseph Hooker.
2.
English theologian (1554-1600).  Synonym: Richard Hooker.
3.
A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.  Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker.
4.
A golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers).
5.
(rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot.



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"Hooker" Quotes from Famous Books



... such stock before. Owing to their habit of staying out in the country the year round, they have a firm, sleek, animated look which the best guaranteed city stock fails to attain. One cow, from her impartial method of hoisting visitors out of her pasture, was labelled "The General Hooker." ...
— Punchinello Vol. II., No. 30, October 22, 1870 • Various

... to be considered, the cause of it was sadly obvious. The fish, being hooked, had made off with the rush of a shark for the bottom of the pool. A thicket of saplings below the alder tree had stopped the judicious hooker from all possibility of following; and when he strove to turn him by elastic pliance, his rod broke at the breach of pliability. "I have learned a sad lesson," said John Pike, ...
— Crocker's Hole - From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore • R. D. Blackmore

... and Stone, was ordered to another post early in August; and its departure caused such universal regret that no one supposed Company H, under Captain Frisbie, could fill its place. Nevertheless, that handsome young officer soon found his way to the good-will of the people, and when Captain Joe Hooker brought him out to visit grandma's dairy, she, too, was greatly pleased by his soldierly bearing. After he mentioned that he had heard of her interest in the company which had been called away, and that he believed she would find Company ...
— The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate • Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

... girded for the conflict the South entered the second phase of the war—the path of glory from the shattered army of McClellan on the James to Hooker's crushed and bleeding ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... the legitimate child of the Reformation. It grew, as I shall show you, directly out of the new despised Protestantism. Matthew Parker and Bishop Jewel, the judicious Hooker himself, excellent men as they were, would have written and preached to small purpose without Sir Francis Drake's cannon to play an accompaniment to their teaching. And again, Drake's cannon would not have roared so loudly and ...
— English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century - Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 • James Anthony Froude


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