Hook
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Hook may refer to:
- Hook (boxing), a boxing punch in which the arm is swung bent
- Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
- Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark in the Vietnamese alphabet
- Captain Hook, a fictional villain from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, a children's novel
- Hook (film), a 1991 motion picture sequel to the Peter Pan books and stageplay starring Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams
- Hook (video game), video games based on the film
- Hook (song), a 1994 single by the jam band Blues Traveler
- Hook (Transformers), a Constructicon surgical engineer and truck crane in the Transformers universe
- Fishing hook, a device used to catch fish
- Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to give traction on a distant object (such as a wall, tree or a vehicle) by snagging on its edge or corner when thrown
- Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
- Siege hook, a weapon used in medieval and classical siege warfare to tear down walls in fortifications
- Telephone hook, a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
- Prosthetic hook, a crude hand prosthesis
- Narrative hook, a type of plot device in screenwriting and literature
- Bondage hook, a device used in sexual bondage play
- "Hook-and-loop" fasteners such as Velcro
- Hooking, a computer programming technique used in event handling
[edit] Placenames
- Hoek van Holland or Hook of Holland, in the Netherlands
- Hook Head, Ireland
- In the United States:
- Bombay Hook, Delaware (Boomties Hoek)
- Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania (Maratties Hoek)
- Sandy Hook, New Jersey (Sant Hoek)
- Red Hook, New York (Roode Hoek)
- In England:
