fishhook
IPA: fˈɪʃhʊk
noun
- a barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing
- (slang, card games) a jack (the playing card)
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Examples of "fishhook" in Sentences
- "My sole worldly possessions are a stone hatchet and a hairpin fishhook."
- Then we were on the road and I knew we were turns northwest, there is a place called "fishhook", where the road turns northwest.
- I’m six foot, when I don’t affect the posture of a fishhook, which is most of the time, but if I can remember to stand up straight, I’ll tower over him!
- The Belfair digs look out on the "fishhook" section at the south end of Hood Canal, where pollution and warm water temperatures pose a danger to sea life.
- More important to this work was the result of a "fishhook"--a query placed in my Times Magazine "On Language" column for the coiner of "Social Security is the third rail of American politics--touch it and you die."
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