crook
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(verb) bend or cause to bend |
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Synonyms: curve |
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Related Words: bend, flex, recurve |
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| 2. |
(noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped |
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Synonyms: shepard's crook |
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Related Words: staff |
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(noun) a circular segment of a curve: "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path" |
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Synonyms: bend, turn |
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Related Words: bight, curve, curved shape |
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(noun) someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime |
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Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
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Related Words: abductor, accessary, accessory, accomplice, arsonist, blackmailer, bootlegger, briber, coconspirator, conspirator, contrabandist, desperado, desperate criminal, drug peddler, drug trafficker, extortioner, extortionist, firebug, fugitive, fugitive from justice, gangster, gangster's moll, goon, gun moll, habitual criminal, highbinder, highjacker, hijacker, hood, hoodlum, incendiary, kidnaper, kidnapper, lawbreaker, liquidator, machinator, mobster, moll, mooncurser, moonshiner, murderer, offender, parolee, peddler, plotter, probationer, punk, pusher, racketeer, raper, rapist, recidivist, repeater, runner, scofflaw, smuggler, snatcher, suborner, thief, thug, tough, toughie, traitor, treasonist, violator, wrongdoer |
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