Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A barbed metal hook used for catching fish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hook for catching fish.
- n. A hook used with a fish-tackle. See fish-tackle.
Wiktionary
- n. a barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing
- n. slang A jack (the playing card)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A hook for catching fish.
- n. (Naut.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sharp barbed hook for catching fish
Etymologies
- From Middle English fisch-hook, from Old English *fischōc (“fishhook”), equivalent to fish + hook. Cognate with Dutch vishaak ("fishhook"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“Dubbed the "fishhook" for its serpentine design, this rigorous on-the-road safety test measures your chance of rollover and is the first of its kind to be conducted by a government agency.”
“He showed them to Ed Davis, who said that he recognized the "fishhook" shaped formation as the area where he had seen a piece of the ark.”
“Simon Davies, the head of a group called Privacy International, put out a press release saying, “Google looks at privacy the way a worm looks at a fishhook.””
“Marlo had a tattoo on her neck, a fishhook in her eye-brow.”
“Some others are those ridiculous "You're stranded on Mt. Everest with nothing more than a fishhook and a Q-tip ...".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fishhook’.
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Here Fishy Fishy!
A broad list of words and phrases describing schemes and devices, from ancient to modern, that humans have devised to catch or harvest our underwater friends.
hook, line and si..., hook, line, sinker, pole, rod, bobber, artificial bait, natural bait, fly rod, spinner, plug and 76 more...
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I didn't expect to see THAT letter do...
aa, savvy, divvy, powwow, matchhead, skiing, hajj, trekking, continuum, vacuum, bathhouse, fishhook and 37 more...
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Hooks
hook, Captain Hook, shook, grappling hook, meat hook, pruning hook, hooks, hook 'em horns, Hook 'em Horns, sky-hook, hook, line, and s..., hook, line and si... and 66 more...
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HH
Very familiar names, compound words and phrases containing HH or H H
rough hewn, heinrich himmler, high hopes, match head, seventh heaven, bosch, hieronymus, faith hill, rush hour, cornish hen, hash house, faith healer, hush hush and 62 more...
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