Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A clothes fastener consisting of a small blunt metal hook that is inserted in a corresponding loop or eyelet.
- n. A latch consisting of a hook that is inserted in a screw eye.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See hook and eye, under hook.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a kind of fastener used on clothing
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘hook and eye’.
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such and such
alas and alack, apples and oranges, coffee and tea, cream and sugar, father and son, forgive and forget, ins and outs, kith and kin, knit and purl, milk and cookies, mother and daughter, odds and ends and 181 more...
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Siamese Twins - X and/or Y
Collocations with 'and' & 'or'
neither fish nor ..., neither hide nor ..., alive and kicking, all or nothing, an arm and a leg, apples and oranges, back and forth, be-all and end-all, bells and whistles, black and white, blood and guts, bow and arrow and 230 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 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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window dressing
chemise, gossamer, tweed, pleat, fold, cuff, button, shirttails, ascot, cummerbund, velvet, silk and 104 more...
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