hooked

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If you do that the loops get hooked to each other regardless of the thread pumping it.

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Quick take

curved down like an eagle's beak

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hooked gathered in one view.

adjective

curved down like an eagle's beak

adjective

addicted to a drug

adjective

having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold); "hooklike thorns";

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hooked.

adjective

curved down like an eagle's beak

adjective

addicted to a drug

adjective

having or resembling a hook (especially in the ability to grasp and hold); "hooklike thorns";

Example sentences

If you do that the loops get hooked to each other regardless of the thread pumping it.

Once a teacher is hooked on calendar as a "gateway drug", it's not hard to take the leap.

Now I'm hooked--I visit the sub reddits multiple times every day.

Is Stallman okay with being hooked up to medical computers even though they may not be running free software?

Some kid decides to make something cute or awesome or badass or smartass and the next thing you know s/he's hooked on sound editing or what-not.

It's a conspiracy!I almost stopped reading there, hand stuck to my forehead, but then I saw this as I was closing the page and was hooked to the rest of this like watching a train wreck happen.

The end result might look a little prettier but that cool Infragistics graph is locked inside the program and can't be shared like the old Excel report because no one hooked up the "export feature".

In my case, I was hooked up to an apheresis machine for a few hours, and it basically pumped blood out of one arm, and then pumped back the blood minus stem cells into the other arm.

He calls games like Angry Birds or Bejeweled, which ensnare players in addictive loops of frustration and gratification under the pretense that skill is required to win, 'abusive' -- a common diagnosis among those who get hooked on the games, but a surprising one from a game designer, ostensibly charged with doing the hooking.