Definition of Crook

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Definition of Crook

Crook

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

Any implement having a bent or crooked end.

The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.

A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

A pothook.

An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.

A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.

To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

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Crook Quotations

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Charlie Chaplin

I am not a crook.
Richard M. Nixon

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
Richard M. Nixon

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.
Benny Hinn

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
Duncan Sheik

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.
Esther Dyson

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
Larry Elder

Crook Translations

crook in Afrikaans is ploert
crook in Dutch is ploert, ellendeling, schavuit, boef
crook in Finnish is roisto
crook in French is escroc
crook in Italian is lestofante, pezzente
crook in Portuguese is trafulha
crook in Spanish is bergante
crook in Swedish is bedragare, krok

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