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This is a rough, informal word for a woman who has sex with men for money. It is not polite. In careful speech people say prostitute; hooker sounds like street talk, films, jokes, and angry insults. People sometimes stretch it to attack a woman they want to call cheap, even when no money is involved — that use is and often . The shape of the word is hook plus -er (a person who hooks), but nobody has a sure story for why this meaning appeared; a popular tale linking it to a Civil War general named Hooker is false, because writers were already using the word this way in the 1830s, before that war. There is another, completely different hooker in rugby: the player who hooks the ball. That is not this sense.
組成hook (verb) + -er (person). The “sex for money” meaning itself is unknown; the General Hooker story is a folk tale.
同家族的字
- hookthe verb hook plus the person-ending -er
原始詞典資料20 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of hooks.
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hookernoun詞源 1/ˈhʊkə/
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One who, or that which, hooks.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesA player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
- Hooker Dylan Hartley was sent to the sin-bin after yet another infringement at the breakdown and, on the stroke of half-time, Georgia's territorial advantage finally told when number eight Basilaia surged over from the base of the scrum for a try next to the posts.
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ball-gamescricketgamesA batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.
- I once saw Hassett drop England opening batsman and compulsive hooker, Cyril Washbrook, twice in succession at deep fine leg.
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A crocheter.
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datedinformalSynonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”).
- 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, […]
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archaicA thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
- They are sure to be clyd in the night by the angler, or hooker, or such like pilferers that liue upon the spoyle of other poore people.
- Suffer none, from far or near, / With their rights to interfere; / No strange Abram, Ruffler crack— / Hooker of another pack—
hookernoun詞源 2/ˈhʊkə/
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slangA prostitute.
- All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label
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datedslangAn imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.
- Emily had cut short these 3 A.M. glooms with a hooker of bourbon.
hookernoun詞源 4/ˈhʊkə/
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A small fishing boat.
- In England there are Brighton Beach boats, Centre-board sloops, Pollywogs, Lough Erne yachts, Unas, New Brighton sailing-boats, yachts of the Norfolk Broads, Itchen, Clyde sailing and Keystone boats, Penzance luggers, Cobbles, Galways, Hookers and Pookhauns […]
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derogatoryslangnauticaltransportAny antiquated craft.
- [T]he poor Flash is gone, and there is an end of it. Poor old hooker. Hey, Almayer? You made a voyage or two with me. Wasn’t she a sweet craft?
- […] for there was scarce one of us that thought the old hooker would weather so long and hard a blow. We were mighty fortunate to come through it so handily.
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