English noun: crook |
1. | crook (person) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime |
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| Synonyms | criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
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| Broader (hypernym) | principal |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | abductor, accessary, accessory, arsonist, blackmailer, bootlegger, briber, coconspirator, conspirator, contrabandist, desperado, desperate criminal, drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, extortioner, extortionist, firebug, fugitive, fugitive from justice, gangster, gangster's moll, gaolbird, goon, gun moll, habitual criminal, highbinder, highjacker, hijacker, hood, hoodlum, incendiary, jail bird, jailbird, kidnaper, kidnapper, law offender, lawbreaker, liquidator, machinator, mafioso, manslayer, mobster, moll, moon curser, moon-curser, moonshiner, murderer, parolee, peddler, plotter, probationer, punk, pusher, racketeer, raper, rapist, recidivist, repeater, runner, scofflaw, smuggler, snatcher, stealer, strong-armer, suborner, thief, thug, tough, toughie, traitor, treasonist, violator |
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| Instance hyponym | Billie the Kid, Bonney, James, Jesse James, MacGregor, Rob Roy, Robert MacGregor, William H. Bonney |
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2. | crook (shape) a circular segment of a curve |
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| Samples | A bend in the road. A crook in the path.
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| Synonyms | bend, turn, twist |
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| Broader (hypernym) | curve, curved shape |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bight |
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3. | crook (artifact) a long staff with one end being hook shaped |
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| Synonyms | shepherd's crook |
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| Broader (hypernym) | staff |
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