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Crook

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Noun

1. criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw

someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

2. bend, crook, turn, twist

a circular segment of a curve

Example Sentences:
'a bend in the road'
'a crook in the path'

3. crook, shepherd's crook

a long staff with one end being hook shaped

Verb

4. crook, curve

bend or cause to bend

Example Sentences:
'He crooked his index finger'
'the road curved sharply'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crook

see synonyms of crook
noun
1. 
a curved or hooked thing
2. 
a staff with a hooked end, such as a bishop's crosier or shepherd's staff
3. 
a turn or curve; bend
4. informal
a dishonest person, esp a swindler or thief
5. 
the act or an instance of crooking or bending
6. Also called: shank
a piece of tubing added to a brass instrument in order to obtain a lower harmonic series
verb
7. 
to bend or curve or cause to bend or curve
adjective
8. Australian and New Zealand informal
a. 
ill
b. 
of poor quality
c. 
unpleasant; bad
9.  go crook
10.  go crook at

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Crook

see synonyms of crook
noun
1. 
a hooked, bent, or curved thing or part; hook
2. 
a. 
a shepherd's staff, with a hook at one end
b. 
a bishop's staff resembling this; crosier
3. 
a bending or being bent
4. 
a bend or curve
5.  US, Informal
a person who steals or cheats; swindler or thief
verb transitiveWord forms: crooked (krʊkt ; krookt) or ˈcrooking
6. 
to bend or curve
7.  Slang
to steal
verb intransitive
8. 
to bend or curve

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crook

see synonyms of crook
n.
1. An implement or tool, such as a bishop's crosier or a shepherd's staff, with a bent or curved part.
2. A part that is curved or bent like a hook.
3. A curve or bend; a turn: a crook in the path.
4. Informal One who makes a living by dishonest methods.
v. crooked, crook·ing, crooks
v.tr.
To make a crook in; bend: crooked an arm around the package.
v.intr.
To bend or curve.
adj.
Australian
1. Out of order; faulty.
2. Not well; ill.
3. Of poor quality; inferior.
4. Not honest; crooked.
American general who defeated the Lakota (1876) and battled the Chiricahua Apaches under Geronimo (1882-1886).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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