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What (who) is crook - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Crooks; Crooking; Crook, England; Highly Educated Crooks; Crook (disambiguation); Crook, England (disambiguation)
crook
(crooks, crooking, crooked)
1.
A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal. (INFORMAL)
The man is a crook and a liar...
N-COUNT
2.
The crook of your arm or leg is the soft inside part where you bend your elbow or knee.
She hid her face in the crook of her arm.
N-COUNT: usu sing, the N of n
3.
If you crook your arm or finger, you bend it.
He crooked his finger: 'Come forward,' he said.
VERB: V n
4.
A crook is a long pole with a large hook at the end. A crook is carried by a bishop in religious ceremonies, or by a shepherd.
...a shepherd's crook.
N-COUNT
5.
If someone says they will do something by hook or by crook, they are determined to do it, even if they have to make a great effort or use dishonest means.
They intend to get their way, by hook or by crook.
PHRASE: PHR with cl, PHR with v
Crook
Australian slang for being sick or unwell.
I can't come in to work today - I feel a bit crook.
I can't come in to work today - I feel a bit crook.
Crook
·noun A Pothook.
II. Crook ·noun Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
III. Crook ·noun A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
IV. Crook ·noun An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
V. Crook ·noun A bishop's staff of office. ·cf. Pastoral staff.
VI. Crook ·noun A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, ·etc.
VII. Crook ·noun The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
VIII. Crook ·noun A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, ·etc., to change its pitch or key.
Wikipedia
Crook
Crook is another name for criminal.
Crook or Crooks may also refer to:
Examples of use of crook
1. A crook is a crook." Staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.
2. The past and the present are kind of mixed up here, but when it boils down, a crook is a crook, and a crook has no business being in public office, not even for a day.?
3. "When I talk about ethics, the response quite often is, ‘Yeah, he‘s a crook, but he‘s our crook, and isn‘t everybody a crook out there?‘ " McCloskey said in an interview last week.
4. His master, John Crook of Holborn, specialised in razors.
5. Arthur Charles William Crook was born in London in 1'12.