Hook (disambiguation)

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A hook is a tool with a curved end. Hook may also refer to:

Tools

• Hook#Variations for similar tools
  • Hook hand, prosthesis made from a hook

Places

United Kingdom

• Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village and civil parish
• Hook, Hart, Hampshire, a small town and civil parish
  • Hook railway station
• Hook, Fareham, Hampshire, a village
• Hook, London, a suburban area
• Hook, Pembrokeshire, a village
• Hook, Wiltshire, a small village

Other

• Hook Island, Queensland, Australia
• Hook Point, Queensland, Australia
• Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland
• Hook, New Zealand
• Hook River, New Zealand
• Hook of Holland or The Hook, a port town in the Netherlands
• Hook granite massif, Zambia

Language

• Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark attached to letters in various alphabets
• Hook above, a diacritical mark above letters in the Vietnamese alphabet
• Rhotic hook, a diacritical mark attached to symbols in the International phonetic alphabet

Arts and entertainment

Characters

• Hook (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
• Captain Hook, a fictional pirate in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan and other works
• Mr. Hook, a character in several 1940s American animated cartoon shorts produced for the US Navy
• Trooper Hook, the title character of Trooper Hook, a 1957 Western film, played by Joel McCrea
• Hook, a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail

Television and film

• Hook (film), a 1991 fantasy film by Steven Spielberg continuing J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
• The Hook (1963 film), a 1963 Korean War war film
• The Hook (1976 film), a 1976 giallo film
• The Hook (2004 film), a 2004 French thriller film
• <i>Hook</i> (2022 TV series), a program broadcast by ARY Digital

Other arts and entertainment

• Narrative hook, a literary technique designed to grab the reader's interest
• The Hook (album), by Jukka Tolonen
• "Hook" (Blues Traveler song), from their 1994 album, Four
• Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
• The Hook (screenplay), an unproduced screenplay by playwright Arthur Miller
• Hook (video game), four video games based on the Spielberg film

Sports

• Hook (bowling), a curving ball
• Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
• Hook (cricket), a shot in cricket
• Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
• Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
• Hook, part of the hook and ladder trick play in football
• Hook shot, in a type of misplayed golf shot
• Curveball, a type of baseball pitch

People

• Hook (surname), a list of people
• Hook (nickname), a list of people
• Hook., author abbreviation of English botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865)
• Hook.f., author abbreviation of English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), the son of William Jackson Hooker

Other uses

• Hook (computer programming), a computer programming technique
• Telephone hook, an electrical switch which indicates when the telephone has been hung up
• Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter nicknamed "Hook"
• The Hook, a classic urban legend
• The Hook (newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper from 2002 to 2013
• WFFM, a radio station licensed to Ashburn, Georgia, formerly branded "Hook FM"
• Angle (journalism)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Hook
• All pages with titles containing Hook
• Hooke (disambiguation)
• Hooked (disambiguation)
• Hooks (disambiguation)
• Hook echo, a feature visible on radar indicative of tornadic rotation in a thunderstorm

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This page was last edited on 30 April 2024, at 22:20