- Hook
Hook may refer to:
Tools, hardware and fasteners
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Cabin hook , a hooked bar that engages into an eye screw, used on doors
*Fish hook , a device used to catch fish
*Grappling hook , a hook attached to a rope, designed to be thrown and snagged on a target
*Lifting hook , a device for grabbing and lifting loads
*Siege hook , a weapon used to pull stones from a wall during a siege
* Part of ahook-and-eye closure , a clothing fastener
* Part of ahook-and-loop fastener, used in VelcroMedia and entertainment
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Hook (music) , a catchy musical passage
* "Hook" (song), a song by Blues Traveler
* "Hook" (film), a 1991 fantasy continuation of J. M. Barrie's "Peter and Wendy"
** "Hook" (video game), four video games based on the film
* Hook ("Transformers"), several characters in the "Transformers" universe
*Hook (company) , a Japanese visual novel studio
*The Hook , a classic urban legend
* "The Hook" (newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper
*Captain Hook , a fictional villain from J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan"
*Get the hook , a theatrical termAthletics
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Hook (boxing) , a boxing punch
*Hooking (ice hockey) , a penalty
*Hook shot , a type of shot in basketball
*Curveball , a type of baseball pitch
* A method of hitting a golf ballLanguage
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Hook (rhetoric) , a rhetorical device that "hooks" the listener
*Hook (diacritic) , a diacritical mark in the Vietnamese alphabet
*Narrative hook , a literary techniquePlaces
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Hook, New Zealand
*Hook River , New Zealand
*Hook of Holland , the NetherlandsUnited Kingdom
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Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire
*Hook, Hart , in north Hampshire
*Hook, London
*Hook, Pembrokeshire
*Hook, Wiltshire
*Hook-with-Warsash , in south HampshireOther meanings
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Hooking , a computer programming technique
*Telephone hook , a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
*Prosthetic hook , a crude hand prosthesis
*Bondage hook , a device used in sexual bondage play
*Tailhook , a device on an aircraft
* Abu Hamza, a Sunni Muslim leader known as "Hook" in the British tabloid press
*Mil Mi-6 , a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopteree also
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Hook (surname)
*Hooke
*Hooked (disambiguation)
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