Crook Definition

kro͝ok

crooked, crooking, crooks

noun

crooks

A hooked, bent, or curved thing or part; hook.

Webster's New World

A shepherd's staff, with a hook at one end.

Webster's New World

A bishop's staff resembling this; crosier.

Webster's New World

One who makes a living by dishonest methods.

American Heritage

A bend or curve.

Webster's New World

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Antonyms:
law
police
law-abiding citizen
innocent

verb

crooked, crooking

To bend or curve.

Webster's New World

To bend or curve.

Webster's New World

To steal.

Webster's New World

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Wiktionary

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straighten

adjective

Out of order; faulty.

American Heritage

Not well; ill.

American Heritage

Of poor quality; inferior.

American Heritage

Not honest; crooked.

American Heritage

(Australia, 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.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Crook

Noun

Singular:

crook

Plural:

crooks

Origin of Crook

From Middle English croke, crok, from Old English *crōc (“hook, bend, crook”), from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greg- (“tracery, basket, bend”). Cognate with Dutch kreuk (“a bend, fold, wrinkle”), Middle Low German kroke, krake (“fold, wrinkle”), Danish krog (“crook, hook”), Swedish krok (“crook, hook”), Icelandic krókur (“hook”).

From Wiktionary
Middle English crok from Old Norse krōkr

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From crooked (“dishonestly come by”).

From Wiktionary
From crooked or crook

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition