Hook
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Technology
- Hook (programming), or hooking, a computer programming technique
- Hook echo, a feature visible on radar indicative of tornadic rotation in a thunderstorm
- Tailhook, a device on an aircraft
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Language
- Hook (rhetoric), a rhetorical device that "hooks" the listener
- Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark in the Vietnamese alphabet
- Narrative hook, a literary technique
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Media and entertainment
- Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
- The Hook (band), a psychedelic band in the late 60s
- "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 pirate in J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
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Places
- Hook Lighthouse, Ireland
- Hook, New Zealand
- Hook River, New Zealand
- Hook of Holland, the Netherlands
- Šluknov Hook, Czechia
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United Kingdom
- Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire
- Hook, Hart, in north Hampshire
- Hook, London
- Hook, Pembrokeshire
- Hook, Wiltshire
- Hook-with-Warsash, in south Hampshire
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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 misplayed shot in golf stroke mechanics
- Curveball, a type of baseball pitch
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Tools, hardware, and fasteners
- Cabin hook, a hooked bar that engages into an eye screw, used on doors
- Cargo hook
- Fish hook, a device used to catch fish
- Flesh-hook, a device used in cooking meat
- Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target
- Hook-and-eye closure, a clothing fastener
- Hook-and-loop fastener, used in Velcro
- Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
- Purse hook, a hook use to keep a woman's purse from touching the floor
- Shepherd's hook (aka shepherd's crook), a staff used in herding sheep or other animals
- Siege hook, a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege
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Other
- Battle of the Hook, Korean war
- Telephone hook, a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
- Prosthetic hook or Transradial prosthesis, part of a prosthetic arm for amputees
- Bondage hook, a device used in sexual bondage play
- 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"
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See also
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