Hook

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Contents 1 Language 2 Media and entertainment 3 Places 3.1 United Kingdom 4 Sports 5 Tools, hardware and fasteners 6 Other 7 See also

Hook may refer to:

[edit] Language

• Hook (rhetoric), a rhetorical device that "hooks" the listener
• Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark in the Vietnamese alphabet
• Narrative hook, a literary technique
• tennis hook, a bad line call in tennis

[edit] Media and entertainment

• Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
• "Hook" (song), a song by Blues Traveler
• Hook (film), a 1991 fantasy continuation of J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
  • Hook (video game), four video games based on the film
• Hook (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
• Hooksoft, a Japanese visual novel studio
• The Hook, a classic urban legend
• The Hook (newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper
• Captain Hook, a fictional villain from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
• Get the hook, a theatrical term

[edit] Places

• Hook, New Zealand
• Hook River, New Zealand
• Hook of Holland, the Netherlands

[edit] United Kingdom

• Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Hook, Hart, in north Hampshire
• Hook, London
• Hook, Pembrokeshire
• Hook, Wiltshire
• Hook-with-Warsash, in south Hampshire

[edit] Sports

• Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
• Hook (bowling), a curving ball
• Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
• Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
• Hook shot, a type of mis-played shot in golf
• Curveball, a type of baseball pitch

[edit] Tools, hardware and fasteners

• Cabin hook, a hooked bar that engages into an eye screw, used on doors
• Fish hook, a device used to catch fish
• Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target
• Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
• Siege hook, a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege
• Purse hook, a hook use to keep a woman's purse from touching the floor.
• Part of a hook-and-eye closure, a clothing fastener
• Part of a hook-and-loop fastener, used in Velcro

[edit] Other

• Battle of the Hook, Korean war
• Hooking, a computer programming technique
• Telephone hook, a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
• Prosthetic hook, a crude hand prosthesis
• Bondage hook, a device used in sexual bondage play
• Tailhook, a device on an aircraft
• Abu Hamza al-Masri, a Sunni Muslim leader known as "Hook" in the British tabloid press
• Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter nicknamed "Hook"

[edit] See also

• Hook (surname)
• Hooke
• Hooked (disambiguation)
• Hooks

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