crook
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Is crook a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.obsolete
2. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.obsolete
3. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.Examples: "He crooked his finger toward me."; "No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee / Where thrift may follow fawning."; "For if a damsel's blind or lame, / Or nature's hand has crooked her frame, / Or if she's deaf or is wall-eyed; / Yet if her heart is well inclined, / Some tender lover she shall find / That panteth for a bride."transitive
2. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked.intransitive
adj (English)
1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.Examples: "That work you did on my car is crook, mate."; "Not turning up for training was pretty crook."; "The soup was crook. It was onkus. A yellow-bellied platypus couldn′t drink it […]"AustraliaNew-Zealandslang
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.Examples: "I′m feeling a bit crook."AustraliaNew-Zealandslang
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.Examples: "be crook at/about; go crook at"; "Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too."; "I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late."AustraliaNew-Zealandslang
Definition source: Wiktionary