crooks
Meaning of crooks
noun
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
the crook of a cane
- A lock or curl of hair.
- A gibbet.
- 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.
- A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.
- A bishop's staff of office.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A pothook.
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- To bend, or form into a hook.
He crooked his finger toward me.
- To become bent or hooked.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Information about crooks
- The singular form of crooks is: crook.
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Hyphenation of crooks
crooks
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- crooks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Anagrams of crooks
Words that rhyme with crooks
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