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hooker

8.2

A golfer who hits the ball so it curves sharply left for right-handed players

noun
/ˈhʊkər/

Jargon

: golfista con tendencia a hacer hook

If you want to improve your game, you need to learn how to correct your hooker shots.

Examples

A hooker cut to look like Turner is still a hooker.

L.A. Confidential (1997)
I've only done this one other time and it was a really tiny hooker.

The Heat (2013)
Like everyone else, I'm just dying over those Rag & Bone booties (I think it's the heel height that I love - not hooker tall, not stubby short, you know?).

Blog text (28)
We import 200 hookers from around the world, and each camper, armed with only a Thermos of coffee and $2,000 cash, tries to visit as many countries as he can, and the winner, of course, is named King of Sexual Awareness Week, and is allowed to rape and pillage the neighboring towns until camp ends.

Meatballs (1979)
The golfer has a tendency to produce shots with a leftward curve, often referred to as a hooker.
His swing is so strong that every ball he hits ends up as a severe hooker to the left.

Antonyms

to slice

Jargon

30 6.9

To hit a ball so it spins and curves away, often in golf or tennis

Surface Forms

hooker singular

hookers plural

Morphology

hooker = hook (semi-transparent) = hook + er

The golfing sense follows the usual agent noun pattern, but the specialized meaning depends on knowing the sport-specific verb use of hook.

Etymology

In golf, hooker is named after the hook shot, a ball that 'curves' sharply to the left, so a hooker is a player who often makes that curved shot.