Hook
Hook stands for:
- a punch in boxing, see hook (boxing)
- Captain Hook , literary character from the novel Peter Pan
- Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show , American pop-country-rock band
- Fish Hook River (or Fishhook River), a tributary of the Shell River in northern Minnesota in the United States
- a specific type of ball trajectory in golf, see golf swing # trajectories
- Hook (computer game) , computer game from the Irem company
- Hook (film) , directed by Steven Spielberg based on the Peter Pan story
- Hook (film dramaturgy) , film dramaturgical term
- Hook (computer science) , programming interface in IT
- Hookline , catchy melody of a piece of music
- Toehook , a foot hook ( English foothook ) for climbing, also known in the variants as heelhook
- Mount Hook , mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica
- Hook Island , off the coast of Queensland, Australia
- Hook Island (Biscoe Islands) , island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago, Antarctica
Hook is the name of the following places:
- Hook (Hart) in Hampshire, England
- Hook (Fareham) in Hampshire, England
- Hook (New Zealand) in New Zealand
- Hook (Peninsula) in County Wexford in Ireland
Hook is a family name of the following people:
- Antony Hook (* 1980), British barrister and politician, MEP
- Bill Hook (1925-2010), British Virgin Islands chess player
- Elias Hook (1805–1881), American organ builder , brother of George Hook
- Enos Hook (1804–1841), American politician
- Frank Eugene Hook (1893–1982), American politician
- George Hook (1807–1880), American organ builder, brother of Elias Hook
- James Hook (composer) (1746–1827), English composer and organist
- James Hook (rugby player) (born 1985), Welsh rugby player
- Jay Hook (born 1936), American baseball player
- Peter Hook (* 1956), bassist for the bands Joy Division and New Order
- Ross Hook (1917-1996) British Anglican Bishop
- Sidney Hook (1902–1989), American philosopher and publicist
- Theodore Hook (1788–1841), British journalist and novelist
- Ursula Hook (* 1957), German athlete
hook stands for:
- English for hook
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Wiktionary: hook - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
