HOOK ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hook on mean? 

• HOOK ON (verb)
  The verb HOOK ON has 1 sense:

1. adopt

  Familiarity information: HOOK ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOK ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adopt

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

fasten on; hook on; latch on; seize on; take up

Context example:

take up new ideas

Hypernyms (to "hook on" is one way to...):

adopt; embrace; espouse; sweep up (take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

An imaging device is used to guide a thin wire with a hook on the end through a hollow needle to place the wire in or around the abnormal area.

(Needle-localized biopsy, NCI Dictionary)

He had tied his cord to the hook on which the heavy lamp used to hang, and he had jumped off from the top of the very box that he showed us yesterday.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)