Definizione monolingua

crook

crook (third-person singular simple present crooks, present participle crooking, simple past and past participle crooked)

1. (transitive) To bend.

   He crooked his finger toward me.

   • 1917, Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett (translator)Anna Karenina, Part 4, Chapter 5,

     “ […] In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,” he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair […] .

crook (plural crooks)

1. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

   She held the baby in the crook of her arm.

2. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
3. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

   the crook of a cane

4. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
5. (obsolete) A gibbet.
6. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
7. A shepherds crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend (""hook"") at one end used by shepherds.
   • 1970, The New English Bible with the Apocrypha, Oxford Study Edition, published 1976, Oxford University Press, Psalms 23-4, page 583:

     Even though I walk through a / valley dark as death / I fear no evil, for thou art with me, / thy staff and thy crook are my / comfort.

8. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
9. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
   • 1973 November 17, Richard Nixon, reported 1973 November 18, The Washington Post, Nixon Tells Editors, ‘Im Not a Crook’,

     ""People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I?m not a crook. I?ve earned everything I?ve got.""

crook (comparative more crook, superlative most crook)

1. (Australian, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.

   That work you did on my car is crook, mate

   Not turning up for training was pretty crook.

   Things are crook at Tallarook.

   • 2004, Robert Barnard, A Cry from the Dark, page 21,

     “Things are crook at home at the moment.”

     “They?re always crook at my home.”

2. (Australian, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.

   I?m feeling a bit crook.

3. (Australian, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.

   be crook at/about; go crook at

   • 2006, Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, Ive Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt, page 17,

     Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.

   • 2007, Jo Wainer, Bess, Lost: Illegal Abortion Stories, page 159,

     I went home on the tram, then Mum went crook at me because I was late getting home—I had tickets for Mum and her friend to go to the Regent that night and she was annoyed because I was late.

   • 2007, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Don?t Take Your Love to Town, page 100,

     I went crook at them for not telling me and as soon as she was well enough I took her home to the camping area and she soon picked up.

   • 2009, Carolyn Landon, Cups With No Handles: Memoir of a Grassroots Activist, page 234,

     Mum went crook at me for wasting money, but when Don got a job and spent all his money on a racing bike, she didn?t say a thing to him.

Definizione dizionario crook

	criminale
	A person that has conducted a criminal act.

curva

curvare

curvarsi

curvatura

gancio

gomito

imbroglione

inarcare

lestofante

pezzente

piegare

svolta

truffatore

uncino

Altri significati:

depart (from a principle)

A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.

(Australian, New Zealand, slang) ill, sick.

A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.

a staff with a hook at one end, particularly one used by shepherds

(transitive) To bend.

A bend.

a bend

(Australian, New Zealand, slang) not right, not up to standard

a criminal who steals

to bend