1. A long staff with one end being hook shaped
   "The shepherd used his crook to guide the sheep";
   - shepherd's crook
    
2. [informal] Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
   "The police were searching for the crook who had robbed the bank";
   - criminal, felon, outlaw, malefactor [formal], crim [Brit, informal]
    
3. A circular segment of a curve
   "a crook in the path";
   - bend, twist, turn

1. Bend or cause to bend
   "He crooked his index finger";
   - curve

1. Somewhat ill, feeling or being in bad health
   "I'm feeling crook today";
   - ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, unwell, under the weather [informal], seedy [archaic], out of sorts [informal], off-colour [Brit, informal], grotty [Brit, informal], cruddy [informal]

Derived forms: crooking, crooks, crooked

See also: ill, sick

Type of: bend, curve, curved shape, flex, principal, staff

Encyclopedia: Crook, Joseph