Captain Hook
Captain Hook noun: a villain, especially a pirate and especially one with a missing hand that may be replaced with a hook.
Noun
Captain Hook (plural Captain Hooks)
- A villain, especially a pirate and especially one with a missing hand that may be replaced with a hook.
- Rise and fall of Abu Hamza: the ‘Captain Hook’ of controversial preachers2014 May 8, Paul Crompton and Rajia Aboukheir, “Rise and fall of Abu Hamza: the ‘Captain Hook’ of controversial preachers”, in Al Arabiya, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2026
- Even that conscientiously crusty Daily Mirror columnist Cassandra, the Captain Hook of Fleet Street, burst into angry tears and published a black-edged In Memoriam notice for Little Lemon.1985, Kenneth Allsop, The Angry Decade: A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen-fifties, Goodchild, page 123
Forms of Captain Hook
| plural | Captain Hooks |
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Origin of Captain Hook
After the character from the Peter Pan story.
Questions about Captain Hook
- What does Captain Hook mean?
- Captain Hook means a villain, especially a pirate and especially one with a missing hand that may be replaced with a hook.
- What part of speech is Captain Hook?
- Captain Hook is a noun.
- What is the plural of Captain Hook?
- The plural of Captain Hook is Captain Hooks.
Words near Captain Hook in the dictionary
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