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[ adjective ] curved down like an eagle's beak

Synonyms

aquiline

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

Every morning early , in the summer , we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells , carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung , and stabled them , a weird faery herd , in an angle between the high roots of the tulip_tree , where no grass grew in the dense shade .

Related terms

crooked

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[ adjective ] addicted to a drug

Used in print

(Richard S. Prather, "The Bawdy Beautiful," Cavalier...)

`` According to Rose , he arrived here a couple minutes before nine and spotted Thor in the water , got a hooked pole from the pool equipment locker and started hauling him out .

Related terms

addicted

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