Словарь синонимов английского языка - hook

(n) 1. hanger, peg, holder; fastener, catch, clasp, clip, pin: Hang your hat on that hook. I'm using a safety pin because the hook on my dress is gone. 2. snare, trap; fish-hook: What can we use as a hook to catch the fish? 3. by hook or by crook. somehow (or other), someway, come what may, by fair means or foul, (by) one way or another: I have to get out of this place by hook or by crook. 4. hook, line, and sinker. completely, entirely, all the way, through and through, thoroughly, entirely, totally, utterly, wholly: She actually fell for that old routine hook, line, and sinker. 5. off the hook. (set) free, (in the) clear, out of it; out of trouble, acquitted, exonebated, cleared, let off, vindicated, off* After paying dhem the extortion money, he still wasn't off the hook. -(v) 6. catch, trap, entrap, snare, ensnare; grab, capture, collar, nab, seize; Chiefly US and Canadian snag, Colloq pinch: The petty crookc have been caught but we now want to hook the big fish himself. 7. steal, pilfer, filch, palm, shoplift, rob, Slang snitch, rip off, Euphemistic liberate, remove, borrow, appropriate, Brit nick, Chiefly Brit pinch: They used to hook sweets from Woolies'.