hook
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3.4
- noun
- /hʊk/
- To write a successful article, you need a captivating hook to draw in your audience.
- create a hook
- provide a hook
- serve as a hook
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Watch on YouTubeMeaning the lyrics, the hook, the beat.
- Meaning the lyrics, the hook, the beat.
- OK, the hooks are incredibly tacky, as you can tell.
- That's the big hook anyway, that will work in Hawaii.
- I like those hooks that grab the globe's attention.
- I'd love to sing a hook for Jay-Z or Kanye.
- And so I tried to find the emotional hook in a true crime movie.
- And of course, the hook is you don't have to scoop your litter box.
- You know, there has to be some sort of hook that they, you know, are responding to.
- Now the physiological hook is that you're breathing from your diaphragm.
- So we've got the Serendipity journal, we've got the hook strategy.
- But what I what I appreciate now is that title, thumbnail and even hook TTH comes first.
- You needed people that could write songs that had hooks every few seconds to grab people.
- I love other drums come in right with the hook line right.
- So that's that's the hook that that helps them get by.
Examples
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Phones are ringing off the hook.
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We had not made some necessary connection, a hook into a deeper intimacy, and this failure perplexed us.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's got a great hook on the end of the first episode.
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And this song is just hook after hook after hook.
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We were not looking for just a hook to bring teens in; we wanted a vibrant learning space.
Academic text (2011) -
Obviously you need a really strong hook that's going to stop them, right?
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The phone's been ringing off the hook.
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The phones are ringing off the hook with people screaming to be let back into the city.
Fiction book (1998) -
Chapter 7, titled "Getting Started: Setting the Narrative Hook," contains advice for all novelists, not just mystery writers.
Academic text (2009) -
The rationalization plotline serves primarily as a hook on which to hang the enemy theme.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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3.4
Something that attracts people by offering a reward or advantage
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4.3
A quality that tempts people by promising a reward
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7.4
Something meant to attract someone, like a compliment or an ad
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3.8
Something that quickly gets people's attention, like a headline
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5.4
Something added to an offer to make someone more likely to accept, for example a bonus
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3.5
An opening line or idea that quickly gets people's attention
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.6
A basketball shot made by sweeping the arm and releasing the ball high with the hand farthest from the basket
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3.2
A needle with a small hook at one end used to pull yarn through loops to make fabric
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7.2
A tool with a long handle and a curved blade used to cut small tree branches and shrubs
- Archaic
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8.3
A small hand tool with a curved blade and short handle for cutting wheat and grass
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8.8
A wooden block attached to a bench that holds wood steady while you cut or shape it
- Specialized
A device on a plane that catches a wire on a carrier deck to stop the plane quickly during landing
- Specialized
A tool with a hooked end for turning round nuts or bolt heads without flat sides
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Hook for an attention-grabber comes from the idea of a fishing hook that 'catches' a fish, so a story or ad 'hooks' people by catching their interest.