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"(cricket) A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots."
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"ball-games",
"cricket",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A crocheter."
],
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[
"crocheter",
"crocheter"
]
]
},
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"English dated terms",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1966, Charles Anthony Wainwright, The Television Copywriter, page 39",
"text": "We regard the first seven seconds of a television commercial as the most critical or crucial in the whole unit — the \"Do or Die Seven\" — the \"moment of decision\" or the \"hooker\", if you will, when we must capture the attention of the viewer, get him involved in the action, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”)"
],
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[
"hook",
"hook#English"
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],
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"(informal, dated) Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”)"
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"English terms with quotations"
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"ref": "c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell",
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{
"ref": "1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, volume 2, Oath of the Canting Crew, page 339",
"text": "Suffer none, from far or near, / With their rights to interfere; / No strange Abram, Ruffler crack— / Hooker of another pack",
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}
],
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"A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods."
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"hook"
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"(archaic, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods."
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"ipa": "/ˈhʊk.ə(ɹ)/",
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"UK"
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"US"
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"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "rugby player",
"word": "hakker"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zahvaštač",
"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "захващач"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "talonador"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mlynář"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "talonneur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rugby player",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "talonneuse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hakler"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "caiteoir"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tallonatore"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rugby player",
"word": "kaitīkape"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "rugby player",
"word": "kaikape"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "rugby player",
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"masculine"
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"word": "młynarz"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "rugby player",
"word": "taloner"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "rugby player",
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"code": "es",
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"Spain",
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"code": "es",
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"feminine"
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "rugby player",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bachwr"
}
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"word": "sweat like a hooker in church"
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"word": "with blackjack and hookers"
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"American English",
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],
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"A prostitute."
],
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],
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"(US, slang) A prostitute."
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"ref": "1993, Herman Wouk, The Hope (novel), page 675",
"text": "Emily had cut short these 3 A.M. glooms with a hooker of bourbon.",
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}
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],
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[
"gulp",
"gulp"
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"dated",
"slang"
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"ipa": "/ˈhʊk.ə(ɹ)/",
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"word": "hookah"
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"Alternative spelling of hookah"
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