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crook 1
(kro͝ok)n.
1. An implement or tool, such as a bishop's crosier or a shepherd's staff, with a bent or curved part.
2. A part that is curved or bent like a hook.
3. A curve or bend; a turn: a crook in the path.
4. Informal One who makes a living by dishonest methods.
v. crooked, crook·ing, crooks
v.tr.
To make a crook in; bend: crooked an arm around the package.
v.intr.
To bend or curve.
[Middle English crok, from Old Norse krōkr.]
crook 2
(kro͝ok)adj. Australian
1. Out of order; faulty.
2. Not well; ill.
3. Of poor quality; inferior.
4. Not honest; crooked.
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crook
(krʊk)n
1. a curved or hooked thing
2. a staff with a hooked end, such as a bishop's crosier or shepherd's staff
3. a turn or curve; bend
4. informal a dishonest person, esp a swindler or thief
5. the act or an instance of crooking or bending
6. (Instruments) Also called: shank a piece of tubing added to a brass instrument in order to obtain a lower harmonic series
vb
to bend or curve or cause to bend or curve
adj
7. informal
a. ill
b. of poor quality
c. unpleasant; bad
8. go crook go off crook informal Austral and NZ to lose one's temper
9. go crook at go crook on informal Austral and NZ to rebuke or upbraid
[C12: from Old Norse krokr hook; related to Swedish krok, Danish krog hook, Old High German krācho hooked tool]
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crook1
(krʊk)n.
1. a bent or curved implement, appendage, etc.; hook.
2. the hooked part of anything.
3. an instrument or implement having a bent or curved part, as a bishop's crosier.
4. a dishonest person, esp. a swindler or thief.
5. a bend or curve.
v.t. 6. to bend; curve: to crook one's finger.
v.i. 7. to bend; curve.
[1125–75; Middle English crok(e) < Old Norse krāka hook]
crook2
(krʊk)adj. Australian.
1. sick; ill.
2. angry; ill-humored.
3. bad; out of order; unsatisfactory.
[1875–80; perhaps alter. of earlier cronk < Yiddish or German krank sick]
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crook
Past participle: crooked
Gerund: crooking
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Noun | 1. | crook - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist - a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them bootlegger, moonshiner - someone who makes or sells illegal liquor desperado, desperate criminal - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) fugitive from justice, fugitive - someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice highbinder - a corrupt politician highjacker, hijacker - someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie, goon, tough - an aggressive and violent young criminal abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher - someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) mafioso - a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) principal - (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement parolee, probationer - someone released on probation or on parole racketeer - someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater - someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) scofflaw - one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, runner, smuggler - someone who imports or exports without paying duties stealer, thief - a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it traitor, treasonist - someone who betrays his country by committing treason |
2. | crook - a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" curve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes bight - a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | |
3. | crook - a long staff with one end being hook shaped staff - a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose; "he walked with the help of a wooden staff" | |
Verb | 1. | crook - bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply" recurve - curve or bend (something) back or down |
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crook
noun
verb
adjective
1. (Austral. & N.Z. informal) ill, sick, poorly (informal), funny (informal), weak, ailing, queer, frail, feeble, unhealthy, seedy (informal), sickly, unwell, laid up (informal), queasy, infirm, out of sorts (informal), dicky (Brit. informal), nauseous, off-colour, under the weather (informal), at death's door, indisposed, peaky, on the sick list (informal), green about the gills He admitted to feeling a bit crook.
go (off) crook (Aust. & N.Z. informal) lose your temper, be furious, rage, go mad, lose it (informal), seethe, crack up (informal), see red (informal), lose the plot (informal), go ballistic (slang, chiefly U.S.), blow a fuse (slang, chiefly U.S.), fly off the handle (informal), be incandescent, go off the deep end (informal), throw a fit (informal), wig out (slang), go up the wall (slang), blow your top, lose your rag (slang), be beside yourself, flip your lid (slang) She went crook when I confessed.
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crook
nounverb
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Translations
إنْحِناءه، إلْتِواءعَصا مَعْقوفَـهنَصَّابنَصّاب، مُحْتـاليَحْنـي، يَثْني، يَعْقـف
berladarebákhůllumpohbí
slyngelarmkrogbispestavbøjeforbryder
konnakoukistaarikollinentaive
varalica
begörbítgörbíthajlatpásztorbot
glæpamaðurglæpamaîur, òorparihirðingjastafurhirîingjastafurkrækja
ペテン師
사기꾼
kreivaikreivumaskuprotasnesąžiningainesąžiningas
blēdiskrāpnieksliekumslīkumssaliekt
berla
lopov
skurk
คนทุจริต
kẻ lừa gạt
crook
[krʊk]A. N
2. the crook of one's arm → el pliegue del codo
3. (= thief) → ladrón/ona m/f; (= villain) → maleante mf
C. ADJ (Australia) (= ill) → mal
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
crook
[ˈkrʊk] n (= rogue) → escroc m
(= stick) [shepherd] → houlette f
by hook or by crook → coûte que coûte
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
crook
1vt finger → krümmen; arm → beugen; she only has to crook her (little) finger and he comes running → sie braucht nur mit dem kleinen Finger zu winken und schon kommt er angerannt
crook
2Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
crook
[krʊk]1. n
a. (fam) (thief) → ladro/a, truffatore/trice
b. the crook of one's arm → l'incavo del braccio
2. vt (arm, finger) → piegare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
crook
(kruk) noun1. a (shepherd's or bishop's) stick, bent at the end.
2. a criminal. The two crooks stole the old woman's jewels.
3. the inside of the bend (of one's arm at the elbow). She held the puppy in the crook of her arm.
verb to bend (especially one's finger) into the shape of a hook. She crooked her finger to beckon him.
ˈcrooked (-kid) adjective1. badly shaped. a crooked little man.
2. not straight. That picture is crooked (= not horizontal).
3. dishonest. a crooked dealer.
ˈcrookedly (-kid-) adverbˈcrookedness (-kid-) noun
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
crook
→ نَصَّاب darebák slyngel Betrüger αγύρτης malhechor konna escroc varalica imbroglione ペテン師 사기꾼 oplichter kjeltring oszust desonesto жулик skurk คนทุจริต düzenbaz kẻ lừa gạt 骗子Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009