Words / B2

HUK/hʊk/

To hook is to catch with a curved object, or to capture attention: hook a fish; hook the reader. As a noun: a coat hook; a hook in the first line. Catch is wider. Off the hook = no longer in trouble. Hook the reader in sentence one. Mix-up: hoodie (already in the dictionary).

Meaning

To catch with a hook; also to capture attention (hook the reader).

Examples

• “Hook the reader in the first sentence; do not save the thesis for page three.”
• “He is not off the hook until the appeal lands, which is the idiom.”

Good to know

hook the reader / audience; a hook. Idiom: off the hook. Object: a hook. Writing advice and fishing. Attention, not a hoodie.

Near in meaning

catch

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