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Noun: hooker  hû-ku(r)
  1. [vulgar] A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
    - streetwalker, street girl, hustler
     
  2. A golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers)
     
  3. (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot
Noun: Hooker  hû-ku(r)
  1. English theologian (1554-1600)
    - Richard Hooker
     
  2. United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
    - Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe Hooker

Derived forms: hookers

Type of: athlete, cyprian [archaic], full general, general, golf player, golfer, jock [N. Amer, informal], linksman, prostitute, prozzie [slang], theologian, theologiser [Brit], theologist, theologizer, trull [archaic], wench [archaic]

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