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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Crooks; Crooking; Crook, England; Highly Educated Crooks; Crook (disambiguation); Crook, England (disambiguation)
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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.
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.
IX. Crook ·noun To turn from a straight line; to Bend; to Curve.
X. Crook ·vi To Bend; to Curve; to Wind; to have a curvature.
XI. Crook ·noun To turn from the path of rectitude; to Pervert; to Misapply; to Twist.
crook         
I. n.
1.
Bend, flexure, curvature, turn.
2.
Bent staff, shepherd's crook, bishop's crook or staff.
3.
Trick, artifice, machination.
II. v. a.
Bend, curve, incurvate, bow, inflect, make crooked.
III. v. n.
Bend, curve, become crooked, wind, turn.
crook         
bad; not a satisfactory outcome.
Don't use that car, the engine is crook.
crook         
¦ noun
1. a shepherd's hooked staff.
a bishop's crozier.
2. a bend, especially at the elbow in a person's arm.
3. informal a person who is dishonest or a criminal.
¦ verb bend (something, especially a finger as a signal).
¦ adjective Austral./NZ informal bad, unsound, or unwell.
?dishonest or illegal.
Derivatives
crookery noun
Origin
ME: from ON krokr 'hook'.
shepherd's crook         
  • Shepherd's crook
HOOKED WALKING STICK USED BY SHEPHERDS
Shephard's hook; Crook (shepherd); Crook staff; Crook-staff; Shepherd's staff
¦ noun a shepherd's staff with a hook at one end.
Shepherd's crook         
  • Shepherd's crook
HOOKED WALKING STICK USED BY SHEPHERDS
Shephard's hook; Crook (shepherd); Crook staff; Crook-staff; Shepherd's staff
A shepherd's crook is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a shepherd to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in defending against attack by predators.
Crooking         
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Crook.
Crook (music)         
  • "''Cor solo''" (natural horn) – Raoux, Paris, 1797 – Paris, Musée de la Musique (with a double-loop crook located within the body of the horn).
EXCHANGEABLE SEGMENT OF TUBING IN A NATURAL HORN
Terminal crook; Shank (music); Master crook (music); Bit (music); Coupler (music); Inventionshorn; Invention trumpet
A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic series which the instrument can sound, and thus the key in which it plays.Apel, pp.

Википедия

Crook

Crook is another name for criminal.

Crook or Crooks may also refer to: