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A hook on a construction crane
Hook may refer to:
- Any device which attaches to an object, and attempts to draw it towards the place the hook is attached
- Cabin hook, A bar fixed to a staple with a right angled end that is held in a screw eye to hold a door open
- Grappling hook, a hook attached to a rope, designed to give traction on a distant object (such as a wall, tree or a vehicle) by snagging on its edge or corner when thrown
- Lanyard hook, a springy flat stock wire item formed wide at one end, narrow at the other. It opens inward with thumb pressure and stays closed by the temper of the wire.
- Lifting hook, a device for grabbing and lifting loads
- Siege hook, a weapon used in medieval and classical siege warfare to tear down walls in fortifications
- Sister Hook, two overlapping metal hooks hinged to form a heart outline when open
- One part of a hook-and-eye, a type of textile closure
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- As in Captain Hook:
- Captain Hook, a fictional villain from J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, a children's novel
- Hook (film), a 1991 motion picture sequel to the Peter Pan books and stageplay starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts and Bob Hoskins
- Hook (video game), video games based on the film
- Abu Hamza, a radical Muslim Cleric known in the British tabloid press as 'Hook' or 'Captain Hook', so named for the hook in place of his missing right hand, currently serving a prison sentence for incitement of racial hatred.
- Hook (Transformers), a Constructicon surgical engineer and truck crane in the Transformers universe
- Telephone hook, a cradle on which a telephone handset rests
- Prosthetic hook, a crude hand prosthesis
- Bondage hook, a device used in sexual bondage play
- "Hook-and-loop" fasteners such as Velcro
- Hooking, a computer programming technique used in event handling
- Tailhook, an implement on navy aircraft to allow safe carrier landing
- Eye bolt (or eye hook), a device used to connect string
- Mil Mi-6 Hook, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter
- The Hook, a classic urban legend
- The Hook (newspaper), a weekly newspaper in Charlottesville, Virginia
- To get the hook, a theater term
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