Definitions
a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
Word origin
From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc (“angle, point, hook”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Used in a sentence
“"If I were a pirate and lost my hand, I would ask them to replace it with a computer mouse rather than a hook. I use a computer mouse all day, and I only use a hook three to five times a day."¶ -Emma Stone¶ On hooks”
“Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, / Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook / Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers: [...]”
“A shop of all the qualities, that man Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing,”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“Curved hanger”4 letters
02“Curved piece for hanging”4 letters
03“Curved wall hanger”4 letters
04“Curved fastener”4 letters
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