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crook
has definitions from the fields of law,criminal law
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
Synonyms Used in print (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)Ace_of_spades - a widow , that was what they called a widow , these low-class crooks remembered Mr._Skyros distractedly . (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)An ' that could mean trouble with a fella that 's workin ' for crooks . |
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[ noun ] a circular segment of a curve
Examples : "a bend in the road" "a crook in the path" Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)She fell_asleep leaning_on her hand , hearing the house creaking as_though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years , hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 2069
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[ noun ] a long staff with one end being hook shaped
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