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How to use hooker in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Hooker means one who, or that which, hooks. Example: “A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.”

Examples of hooker by meaning

nounA batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.

  • I once saw Hassett drop England opening batsman and compulsive hooker, Cyril Washbrook, twice in succession at deep fine leg.1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 32

nounAn imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.

  • Emily had cut short these 3 A.M. glooms with a hooker of bourbon.1993, Herman Wouk, The Hope (novel), page 675

More sentences with hooker

  • A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.From the entry text hooker
  • I confess to have been with a few hookers (the rentals), the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am kind.2002, Patrick Mitchell, This Bank Robber's Life, page 249. From the entry wham, bam, thank you ma'am
  • She thought you had to be a hooker to wear colors.1979, Lewis Yablonsky, The extra-sex factor: why over half of America's married men play around, page 64. From the entry underthing
  • Leave Broadway to the nickel-and-dime hookers and their Metropole trade with the long necks and short pockets.1971 July 26, Gail Sheehy, “Wide Open City/Part I: The New Breed”, in New York, volume 4, number 30, New York, N.Y.: NYM Corporation…. From the entry prommy
  • Never pay for hookers with online money transfers.2016 October, Willam Belli, “How to Suck Less at Your Career”, in Suck Less: Where There’s a Willam, There’s a Way, New York, N.Y.: Grand…. From the entry PayPal
  • He'd asked for more hookers, and I slapped him playfully.2014, Pepper Winters, Destroyed. From the entry funsome
  • It's all that Britney Spears' fault and that other trashy looking singer, Christina Aguilera sp??? geezzzzzz.. they look like hookers !!!!!!2003, Maggie, “I am back again...”, in alt.penpals.rejects (Usenet). From the entry sp
  • The hooker was pretty well plastered by the time I got to the bar and it was a simple favor to reconfiscate your purse.2001, Robert S. Stone, Dark Waters, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry reconfiscate
  • So off we went, six sleazy hookers in low-cut leopard stretch tops, red teddys with micro minis, skin tight hot pink latex pants.1988 April 15, David Fremon, “Extras”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016. From the entry teddys
  • We'd emerge from the subterranean station into Forty-second Street's urban blightscape: the tawdry glow of crumbling old theaters; noisy-clanging-beeping pinball arcades; greasy luncheonettes; and cheap-looking hookers.2009, Nelson George, City Kid, unnumbered page. From the entry blightscape
  • Then I would begin contemplating the next quandary: "Does the Torah say it's okay to portray a hooker, and is a heart of gold a mitigating factor?"2004, Jennifer Traig, Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood, page 181. From the entry quandary

Meaning of hooker

  1. noun One who, or that which, hooks.
  2. noun A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
  3. noun A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.

Full definition of hooker

Questions about hooker in a sentence

How do you use hooker in a sentence?
Hooker is used as a noun. For example: “A text hooker allows English-speaking people to read Japanese visual novels.”
What is a short sentence with hooker?
“Never pay for hookers with online money transfers.”
What does hooker mean?
Hooker means one who, or that which, hooks.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hooker (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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