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lunch hook

lunch hook noun: a person's hand.

Noun

lunch hook (plural lunch hooks)

  1. (slang) A person's hand.
    • It was a question of move, and move damn quick. He'd got a flare pistol in his lunch hook when I fell on him, and your little crowd would have looked pretty if he'd let it off.1918, Herman Cyril McNeile, The Human Touch

Forms of lunch hook

plurallunch hooks

Questions about lunch hook

What does lunch hook mean?
Lunch hook means a person's hand.
What part of speech is lunch hook?
Lunch hook is a noun.
What is the plural of lunch hook?
The plural of lunch hook is lunch hooks.

Words near lunch hook in the dictionary

  1. lunch breaks
  2. lunch bucket
  3. lunch buckets
  4. lunch counter
  5. lunch counters
  6. lunch hook
  7. lunch hooks
  8. lunch hour
  9. lunch hours
  10. lunch in
  11. lunch kettle

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