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hooking in

hooking in is the present participle and gerund 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 hooking in

What is hooking in the present participle and gerund of?
Hooking in is the present participle and gerund of hook in.

Words near hooking in in the dictionary

  1. hookier
  2. hookiest
  3. hookin'
  4. hookiness
  5. hooking
  6. hooking in
  7. hooking it
  8. hooking it up
  9. hooking off
  10. hooking up
  11. hooking up on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hooking 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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