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| crook | |
| 1. n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. |  |
| She held the baby in the crook of her arm. | |
| 2. n. A bending of the knee; a genuflection. | |
| 3. n. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). | |
| the crook of a cane | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) A gibbet. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut. | |
| 7. n. A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds. | |
| 8. n. A bishop's staff of office. | |
| 9. n. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance. | |
| 10. n. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal. | |
| 11. n. A pothook. | |
| 12. n. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. | |
| 13. v. To bend, or form into a hook. | |
| He crooked his finger toward me. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked. | |
| 15. v. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. | |
| 16. adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. | |
| That work you did on my car is crook, mate | |
| Not turning up for training was pretty crook. | |
| Things are crook at Tallarook. | |
| 17. adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick. | |
| I′m feeling a bit crook. | |
| 18. adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset. | |
| be crook at/about; go crook at | |
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