crook
US: /ˈkɹʊk/
UK: /kɹˈʊk/
UK: /kɹˈʊk/
English Vietnamese dictionary
crook /kruk/
- danh từ
- cái móc; cái gậy có móc
- gậy (của trẻ chăn bò); gậy phép (của giám mục)
- cái cong cong, cái khoằm khoằm (nói chung)
- there is a decided crook in his nose: mũi nó trông rõ là mũi khoằm
- sự uốn, sự uốn cong, sự gập lại
- a crook of the knee: sụ uốn gối, sự quỳ gối
- chỗ xong, khúc quanh co
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ lừa gạt
- by hook or by crook
- (xem) hook
- on the crook
- (từ lóng) bằng cách gian lận
- ngoại động từ
- uốn cong, bẻ cong
- uốn cong, bẻ cong
- nội động từ
- cong lại
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb, adjective
+ noun
1 (informal) a dishonest person
Synonym: CRIMINAL
That salesman is a real crook.
2 ~ of your arm / elbow the place where your arm bends at the elbow: He was carrying a gun in the crook of his arm.
3 a long stick with a hook at one end, used especially in the past by SHEPHERDS for catching sheep
Idioms see HOOK n.
+ verb [VN] to bend your finger or arm: She winked and crooked a finger at him.
+ adjective [not usually before noun] (AustralE, informal) ill: I'm feeling a bit crook.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
small-time
VERB + CROOK
catch
Concise English dictionary
crooks|crooked|crookingkrʊk
noun
+someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
+a circular segment of a curve
+a long staff with one end being hook shaped
verb
+bend or cause to bend
