crook :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. a long staff with one end being hook shaped

n. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

n. a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"

v. bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

n. an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

n. a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence

n. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

n. an inferior dog or one of mixed breed

n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

n. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

n. a thief who enters a building with intent to steal

n. someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

n. someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

n. a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes

n. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

n. someone who attacks in search of booty

n. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

n. a small concavity

n. a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

n. the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians

v. straighten up or out; make straight