hooking

To attach a hook to.

“Hook the bag here, and the conveyor will carry it away.”

To catch with a hook (hook a fish).

“He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.”

To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.

To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.

“He hooked his fingers through his belt loops.”

To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.

“A free trial is a good way to hook customers.”

To steal.

To connect (hook into, hook together).

“If you hook your network cable into the jack, you'll be on the network.”

(usually in passive) To make addicted; to captivate.

“He had gotten hooked on cigarettes in his youth.”

To play a hook shot.

To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)

“The opposing team's forward hooked me, but the referee didn't see it, so no penalty.”

To swerve a ball; kick a ball so it swerves or bends.

To engage in prostitution.

“I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window.”

(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.

To finesse.

To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

To move or go with a sudden turn.

The act of catching or fastening something on a hook.

(bandy, floorball) The penalized action of using one's stick to restrain an opponent.