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v. Simple past tense and past participle of crook.

"I know someone who's 34 and has never worked a day in his life, save for the odd shift 'crooking' as he calls it."

crooked    crooking    crooks   

staff   

curve    bend    sinuosity    by hook    to crook the elbow    to crook the mouth   

pastoral staff   

by hook or by crook    by hook or crook   

curvature    flexure    pothook    artifice    trick    subterfuge    pervert    misapply    twist    bend   

Brook    Brooke    Chinook    Cook    Cooke    Hooke    Kirkuk    book    brook    brooke   

narrow    ugly    slender    wooden    jagged    stiff    gnarled