HOOKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hooks mean? 

• HOOKS (noun)
  The noun HOOKS has 1 sense:

1. large strong hand (as of a fighter)

  Familiarity information: HOOKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOOKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large strong hand (as of a fighter)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

hooks; maulers; meat hooks

Context example:

wait till I get my hooks on him

Hypernyms ("hooks" is a kind of...):

hand; manus; mitt; paw (the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb)

 Context examples 

From the heavy wooden rafters which formed the roof there hung rows of hooks which held up sides of bacon, joints of smoked beef, and strings of onions for winter use.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

HMGA proteins contain three AT-hooks that bind to minor groove AT-rich stretches.

(HMGA Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Like a cuckoo, it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, and its chick hatches equipped with sharp hooks at the tips of its beak.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Tree sloths require specialized limb adaptations, reduced body mass, a slow metabolic rate and claws that act like fulcrums — hooks to accommodate the animals' need to hang onto and traverse treetops.

(Putting the sloth in sloths: Arboreal lifestyle drives slow pace, NSF)

And in this cache would be ammunition for his empty gun, fish-hooks and lines, a small net—all the utilities for the killing and snaring of food.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was very sensible of my entertainer's goodness, and listened to the women's going to bed in another little crib like mine at the opposite end of the boat, and to him and Ham hanging up two hammocks for themselves on the hooks I had noticed in the roof, in a very luxurious state of mind, enhanced by my being sleepy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Thou wilt have holy Church upon you if you hang her champions upon iron hooks in an inn kitchen.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I therefore let go the cord, and leaving the hooks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving about two hundred shots in my face and hands; then I took up the knotted end of the cables, to which my hooks were tied, and with great ease drew fifty of the enemy’s largest men of war after me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)