The Meaning of crook

• (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
• (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
• (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
• (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
• (n.) A pothook.
• (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
• (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
• (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
• (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
• (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
• (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Synonyms

criminal , felon , outlaw , malefactor , bend , twist , turn , shepherd's crook , curve

Homophones

crooke

Rhymes

bankbook , benbrook , book , brook , brooke , checkbook , chinook , chook , cook , cookbook , cooke , create-a-book , crooke , decook , donnybrook , flook , forsook , gobbledygook , gook , guidebook , handbook , holbrook , hook , hooke , hornbook , inglenook , jokebook , kirkuk , logbook , look , matchbook , mccook , mistook , mook , nook , notebook , outlook , overbook , overcook , overlook , overtook , passbook , pocketbook , precook , rebook , rook , rooke , rulebook , schnook , schook , schoolbook , scrapbook , shnook , shook , sketchbook , snook , storybook , stroock , strook , subnotebook , textbook , took , tooke , undercook , undertook , unhook , vanhook , westbrook , yearbook , zook