Hook someone into something
verb phrase
To obligate or involve someone by force or trickery: They hooked me into paying for everybody’s lunch/ She got rooked into a very boring cocktail party (1940s+)
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verb phrase To arrest someone; collar, pinch [1990s+ Police; probably fr the act of handcuffing someone]
- Hookswinging
[hoo k-swing-ing] /ˈhʊkˌswɪŋ ɪŋ/ noun 1. a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from attached to the flesh of the back.
- Hook-swinging
[hoo k-swing-ing] /ˈhʊkˌswɪŋ ɪŋ/ noun 1. a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from attached to the flesh of the back.
- Hook-tip
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- Hooktender
[hoo k-ten-der] /ˈhʊkˌtɛn dər/ noun 1. (in lumbering) the supervisor of a rigging crew.