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Hooks
[hooks]
noun
Benjamin Lawson, 1925–2010, U.S. lawyer, clergyman, and civil rights advocate: executive director of the NAACP 1977–93.
Example Sentences
“Dangerous Animals” hooks all the shark movie tropes that audiences want to see along one extended fishing lure, before twisting that lure into a knot, forcing expectations to collide and shatter.
Smith and his two deckhands have been buying bait and preparing hooks, nets and other gear to take 18 passengers fishing Saturday and Sunday.
There in the snow, she’s tasked to swing heavy steel hooks on slippery floors and wield an ice skate like a knife.
“Untold” hooks into the same current of Netflix’s algorithm, buoyed in part by live wrestling and shows featuring right-wing podcasters and comics such as Andrew Schulz, Tony Hinchcliffe and Shane Gillis.
But it’s also part of Netflix’s “rise and fall” true crime genre, cautioning against believing in figures like Johnson, who hooks young men by flogging a version of caveman masculinity that associates virility with dominance.
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