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hooked in

hooked in is the simple past and past participle of hook in.

Meaning of hook in

Verb

hook in (third-person singular simple present hooks in, present participle hooking in, simple past and past participle hooked in)

  1. (transitive) To deceive by luring with a false promise or misleading implication.
  2. (transitive) To be introduced to; to join up with; to become involved with.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: hook.

Questions about hooked in

What is hooked in the simple past and past participle of?
Hooked in is the simple past and past participle of hook in.

Words near hooked in in the dictionary

  1. hookeared sculpins
  2. hooked
  3. hooked bracket
  4. hooked cross
  5. hooked e
  6. hooked in
  7. hooked it
  8. hooked it up
  9. hooked off
  10. hooked up
  11. hooked up on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hooked in (page history and authors); hook in (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.

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