Hook

Hook may refer to:

Technology

• Hooking, a computer programming technique
• Hook echo, a feature visible on radar indicative of tornadic rotation in a thunderstorm
• Tailhook, a device on an aircraft

Language

• Hook (rhetoric), a rhetorical device that "hooks" the listener
• Hook above, a diacritical mark above letters in the Vietnamese alphabet
• Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark attached to letters in various alphabets
  • Palatal hook, a hook attached below curled to the left
  • Retroflex hook, a hook attached below curled to the right
• Narrative hook, a literary technique
• Rhotic hook, a diacritical mark attached to symbols in the Internation phonetical alphabet.

Media and entertainment

• Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
• The Hook (band), a psychedelic band in the late 60s
• "Hook" (song), a song by Blues Traveler
• The Hook (album), an album by Jukka Tolonen
• Hook (film), a 1991 fantasy continuation of J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
  • Hook (video game), four video games based on the film
• The Hook (film), several films
• Hook (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
• Hooksoft, a Japanese visual novel studio
• The Hook, a classic urban legend
• The Hook (newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper
• Captain Hook, a fictional pirate in J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy

Places

• Hook Lighthouse, Ireland
• Hook, New Zealand
• Hook River, New Zealand
• Hook of Holland, the Netherlands

United Kingdom

• Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire
• Hook, Hart, north Hampshire
• Hook, Fareham, south Hampshire
• Hook, London
• Hook, Pembrokeshire
• Hook, Wiltshire

Sports

• Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
• Hook (bowling), a curving ball
• Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
• Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
• Hook shot, a type of misplayed shot in golf stroke mechanics
• Curveball, a type of baseball pitch

Tools, hardware, and fasteners

• Cabin hook, a hooked bar that engages into an eye screw, used on doors
• Cargo hook
• Fish hook, a device used to catch fish
• Flesh-hook, a device used in cooking meat
• Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target
• Hook-and-eye closure, a clothing fastener
• Hook-and-loop fastener, used in Velcro
• Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
• Purse hook, a hook used to keep a woman's purse from touching the floor
• Shepherd's hook (or crook), a staff used in herding sheep or other animals
• Siege hook, a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege

Other

• Battle of the Hook, Korean war
• Telephone hook, a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
• Prosthetic hook or transradial prosthesis, part of a prosthetic arm for amputees
• Bondage hook, a device used in sexual bondage play
• Abu Hamza al-Masri, a Sunni Muslim leader known as "Hook" in the British tabloid press
• Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter nicknamed "Hook"

See also

• All pages beginning with "Hook"
• All pages with titles containing "Hook"
• Hook (surname)
• Hooke (disambiguation)
• Hooked (disambiguation)
• Hooks (disambiguation)