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left hooks

left hooks is the plural of left hook.

Meaning of left hook

Noun

left hook (plural left hooks)

  1. A powerful punch thrown with the left hand, typically after a jab or a straight punch.
    • I hit Stephens with a left hook followed by a looping right hand and a pulverizing left hook that caught him right on the button.2000, Ken Norton, Marshall Terrill, Mike Fitzgerald, Joe Frazier (contributor), Going the Distance, page 160
  2. (figuratively, idiomatic, occasionally) A surprise assault.
    • Just when he thought that the cross-examination was over and he'd parried the questions successfully, one of the lawyers stood up and threw a left hook that left him spluttering.

Questions about left hooks

What is left hooks the plural of?
Left hooks is the plural of left hook.

Words near left hooks in the dictionary

  1. left for dead
  2. left home
  3. left hook
  4. left hooker
  5. left hookers
  6. left hooks
  7. left ideal
  8. left ideals
  9. left identities
  10. left identity
  11. left in the lurch

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