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Hooker

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Noun

1. fighting joe hooker, hooker, joseph hooker

United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)

2. hooker, richard hooker

English theologian (1554-1600)

3. floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker

a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets

4. hooker

a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers)

5. hooker

(rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Hooker

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noun
1. 
a commercial fishing boat using hooks and lines instead of nets
2. 
a sailing boat of the west of Ireland formerly used for cargo and now for pleasure sailing and racing
noun
1. 
a person or thing that hooks
2. US and Canadian slang
a. 
a draught of alcoholic drink, esp of spirits
b. 
a prostitute
3. rugby
the central forward in the front row of a scrum whose main job is to hook the ball
noun
1. 
John Lee. 1917–2001, US blues singer and guitarist
2. 
Sir Joseph Dalton. 1817–1911, British botanist; director of Kew Gardens (1865–85)
3. 
Richard. 1554–1600, British theologian, who influenced Anglican theology with The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593–97)
4. 
Sir William Jackson. 1785–1865, British botanist; first director of Kew Gardens: father of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

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Hooker

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1. 
Joseph1814-79; Union general in the Civil War
2. 
Richard1554-1600; Eng. clergyman & writer
3. 
Thomas1586?-1647; Eng. Puritan clergyman, in America after 1633
noun
1. 
one that hooks
2.  US, Slang
an undiluted drink of whiskey
3.  US, Slang
a prostitute
noun
1. 
an Irish or English fishing smack with one mast
2. 
any clumsy, old ship

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Hooker

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n.
1. A single-masted fishing smack used off the coast of Ireland.
2. An old worn-out or clumsy ship.
n.
1. One that hooks.
2. Slang A prostitute.
n.
Slang
A drink of undiluted hard liquor: a hooker of whiskey.
English-born American cleric who founded Hartford, Connecticut (1636).
English writer and theologian. His Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594) was central to the formation of Anglican theology.
American Union army officer who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at Chancellorsville (1863).
American singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose characteristic style combined elements of boogie-woogie and traditional blues.

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