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What is the noun for hooking?

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hook
  1. A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
  2. A fishhook, a barbed metal hook used for fishing.
  3. Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook
  4. (informal) A ship's anchor.
  5. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
  6. A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, e.g. g and j.
  7. (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
  8. A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
  9. A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
  10. (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
  11. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
  12. (baseball) A curveball.
  13. (software) A feature, definition, or coding that enables future enhancements to happen compatibly or more easily.
  14. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. See draw, slice, fade
  15. (basketball) A basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
  16. (boxing) A type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc.
  17. (slang) A jack (the playing card)
  18. (typography, rare) A háček.
  19. (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
  20. (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
  21. (bridge, slang) A finesse.
  22. A snare; a trap.
  23. A field sown two years in succession.
  24. (plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
  25. (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
  26. Synonyms:
  27. Examples:
    1. “There was a hook where a picture once hung, with horrid marks where the picture had been.”
      “The hood fastens with a hook and eye, the sewing on which is covered under a blue satin bow.”
      “Ben had tried to show her how to bait a hook earlier, but Inger felt too much sympathy for the poor worms to skewer them successfully.”
hooker
  1. One who, or that which, hooks.
  2. A small fishing boat.
  3. (derogatory) Any antiquated craft.
  4. (rugby) A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
  5. A crocheter.
  6. (slang, dated) A measurement of alcohol without definite amounts, meaning the same thing as a "slug" (of gin), an overlarge gulp. Used from the 1920s through the 1940s.
  7. (archaic, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “I was a happy hooker during the revolution of the swinging '60s.”
      “They are sure to be clied in the night by the angler, or hooker, or suchlike pilferers that live upon the spoil of other poor people.”
      “Tindall was dynamite, and Steve Thompson, the debutant hooker, a huge man in attack.”
hookset
  1. (fishing) A sharp motion made with a fishing rod in order to "set" the hook firmly into the mouth of the fish that has taken the bait.
hookbill
  1. Any of various parrots with a hooked bill for climbing and for crushing nuts and seeds.
hooking
hookedness
  1. The condition of being bent like a hook; incurvation.
hooky
  1. Absence from school or work. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Police say she was playing hooky from school, drinking and swimming with friends in a pool.”
hooke
  1. Obsolete spelling of hook
  2. Examples:
    1. “Now Hooke was never a person who did one thing at a time, indeed he seemed at his best when his mind was jumping from one idea to another.”
      “Historians have described Hooke as a difficult and unreasonable man but in many ways this is a harsh judgement.”
      “In 1679 the Royal Society sent Halley to Danzig to arbitrate in a dispute between Hooke and Hevelius.”
hooklet
  1. (especially in natural history) A small or minute hook.
hookman
  1. someone who uses a hook
hookbills
  1. plural of hookbill
hookmen
  1. plural of hookman
hooklets
  1. plural of hooklet
hooksets
  1. plural of hookset
hookers
  1. plural of hooker
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It depicts a world of violence, greed and corruption peopled by hookers, bent and not so bent cops and twisted violent lunatics.”
      “While the supporting players are authentically pot-bellied and stained of armpit, they look like pimps and hookers.”
      “Unfortunately, at 14, Michael was interested in smoking reefer, petty larceny, hookers, LSD and basketball.”
hookes
  1. plural of hooke
hooks
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