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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, 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
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
- Hook (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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