Word.ws English Dictionary

heel hooks

heel hooks is the plural of heel hook.

Meaning of heel hook

Noun

heel hook (plural heel hooks)

  1. (combat sports) A joint lock where the attacker isolates an opponent's leg between his or her own legs, and then twists the opponent's ankle with the aim of causing pain or injury to the opponent's ankle or knee.
  2. An action using the heel to balance on a wall or rock.

Questions about heel hooks

What is heel hooks the plural of?
Heel hooks is the plural of heel hook.

Words near heel hooks in the dictionary

  1. heel bar
  2. heel bone
  3. heel bones
  4. heel flip
  5. heel hook
  6. heel hooks
  7. heel lift
  8. heel lifts
  9. heel out
  10. heel over
  11. heel pad syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heel hooks (page history and authors); heel hook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “heel hooks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heel_hooks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.