1. hooker(n = noun.person) fighting joe hooker, joseph hooker - United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879);
is a kind of full general, general
2. hooker(n = noun.person) richard hooker - English theologian (1554-1600);
is a kind of theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer
3. hooker(n = noun.person) floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets;
is a kind of bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl
4. hooker(n = noun.person) - a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers);
is a kind of golf player, golfer, linksman
Derived form verb hook4
5. hooker(n = noun.person) - (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot;
is a kind of athlete, jock
1. One who, or that which, hooks. [1913 Webster]
2. A Dutch vessel with two masts. [1913 Webster]
hooker, n.
1 Rugby Football the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to hook the ball.
2 sl. a prostitute.
3 a person or thing that hooks.
hooker, n.
1 a small Dutch or Irish fishing-vessel.
2 derog. any ship.
Etymology:
Du. hoeker f. hoek HOOK
N ship, vessel, sail, craft, bottom, navy, marine, fleet, flotilla, shipping, man of war, transport, tender, storeship, merchant ship, merchantman, packet, liner, whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter, fishing boat, pilot boat, trawler, hulk, yacht, baggala, floating hotel, floating palace, ocean greyhound, ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig, brigantine, barkantine, schooner, topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner, chasse-maree, sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy, cat, buss, sailer, sailing vessel, windjammer, steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line, mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer, tug, line of steamers, destroyer, cruiser, frigate, landing ship, LST, aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop, nuclear powered carrier, submarine, submersible, atomic submarine, boat, pinnace, launch, life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat, swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau, broadhorn, dory, droger, drogher, dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot, shallop, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble, punt, cog, kedge, lerret, eight oar, four oar, pair oar, randan, outrigger, float, raft, pontoon, prame, iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht, catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel, felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe, galley, galleyfoist, bilander, dogger, hooker, howker, argosy, carack, galliass, galleon, polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow, dahabeah, nuggah, kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue, quadrireme, trireme, stern-wheeler, wanigan, wangan, wharf boat, balloon, airship, aeroplane, biplane, monoplane, triplane, hydroplane, aerodrome, air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin, aerostat, Montgolfier, kite, parachute, jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane, corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation, airline, common carrier, fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane, supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft, afloat, aboard, on board, on ship board, hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.