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Fishhook

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A barbed metal hook used for catching fish.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing

n. A jack (the playing card)

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A hook for catching fish.

n. A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A hook for catching fish.

n. A hook used with a fish-tackle. See fish-tackle.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a sharp barbed hook for catching fish

Word Usage

"More important to this work was the result of a "fishhook"--a query placed in my Times Magazine "On Language" column for the coiner of "Social Security is the third rail of American politics--touch it and you die.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

hook

Synonym

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