hooker

  1. Noun.  (slang) A prostitute.
  2. Noun.  A small fishing boat.
  3. Noun.  (rugby) a player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
  4. Noun.  A crocheter.
  5. Noun.  A person or thing that hooks.
  6. Noun.  (slang, dated) A measurement of alcohol without definite amounts, meaning the same thing as a "slug" (of gin), an overlarge gulp. Used from the 1920s through the 1940s.

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