A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.
fishhook
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fishhook.
Editorial note
Once you're used to a perk, it's another fishhook the company has embedded into your flesh.
Quick take
A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of fishhook gathered in one view.
(transitive) To impale with a fishhook.
(intransitive) To bend back on itself like a fishhook.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for fishhook.
noun
A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.
verb
(transitive) To impale with a fishhook.
verb
(intransitive) To bend back on itself like a fishhook.
noun
(slang, card games) A jack (type of playing card).
Example sentences
Once you're used to a perk, it's another fishhook the company has embedded into your flesh.
Then what is the school going to do, full cavity search and fishhook your mouth?
But like others are posting to prove a point in contrary, fishhook beachhead exist - but are either conjugated or colloquial.
It is a fishhook constructed between an implied social/free project and a corporation’s revenue source.
Jokes on them, look at that fishhook on top of the a.
I see some sort of hieroglyphic character that looks like a seagull over a pistol over a sort of upside-down fishhook.
The fast way to find the solution to a question on internet is baiting your fishhook with a false answer to trigger an emotional correcting burst.
The current situation is like a fishhook with many barbs.
My co-worker wrote a deep-tech niche article - delved into the world of tracing and explore how to leverage the Fishhook library to change the behavior of functions written in Swift.
I was thinking about deploying some security.txt on our sites and your experience occurred to me, it is sort of like hanging a fishhook out there for all sorts of automated spamming.
> Beachhead Also bathhouse, fishhook, hitchhike, roughhouse, and withhold.
I think the BSD License is a great and subtle fishhook for pulling people into the world of free and open source software, whereas the GPL is a gigantic barbed hook the size of my head with blood and gore dripping off it (at least in the eyes of many businesses), so obvious in its intent and the difficulty of getting unhooked after taking a nibble that many of them may never give it a chance.
Quote examples
Maui doesn't know who he is--he thinks he's powerful because of his magical fishhook ("Without my hook, I am nothing!") but Moana convinces her that he is a hero even without his fishhook.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use fishhook in a sentence?
Once you're used to a perk, it's another fishhook the company has embedded into your flesh.
What does fishhook mean?
A barbed hook, usually metal, used for fishing.
What part of speech is fishhook?
fishhook is commonly used as noun, verb.