A hook is a tool with a curved end.

Hook or The Hook may also refer to:

Tools

  • Hook#Variations for similar tools
  • Hook hand, prosthesis made from a hook

Places

United Kingdom

  • Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village and civil parish
  • Hook, Hart, Hampshire, a small town and civil parish
  • Hook railway station
  • Hook, Fareham, Hampshire, a village
  • Hook, London, a suburban area
  • Hook, Pembrokeshire, a village
  • Hook, Wiltshire, a small village

Other

  • Hook Island, Queensland, Australia
  • Hook Point, Queensland, Australia
  • Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland
  • Hook, New Zealand
  • Hook River, New Zealand
  • Hook of Holland or The Hook, a port town in the Netherlands
  • Hook granite massif, Zambia

Language

  • Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark attached to letters in various alphabets
  • Hook above, a diacritical mark above letters in the Vietnamese alphabet
  • Rhotic hook, a diacritical mark attached to symbols in the International phonetic alphabet

Arts and entertainment

Characters

  • Hook (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
  • Captain Hook, a fictional pirate in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan and other works
  • Jonas Hook, a character created by Terry C. Johnston for a trilogy of novels
  • Mr. Hook, a character in several 1940s American animated cartoon shorts produced for the US Navy
  • Ryder Hook, a character created by Kenneth Bulmer under the pen name Telly Zetford for a series of novels
  • Trooper Hook, the title character of Trooper Hook, a 1957 Western film, played by Joel McCrea
  • Hook, a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail

Film

  • Hook (film), a 1991 fantasy film by Steven Spielberg continuing J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
  • The Hook (1963 film), a 1963 Korean War war film
  • The Hook (1976 film), a 1976 giallo film
  • The Hook (2004 film), a 2004 French thriller film

Literature

  • The Hook (), a 1957 novel by Vahé Katcha, basis for the 1963 film of the same title
  • The Hook, a 1984 novel by Basil Copper; the 41st installment in the Mike Faraday series
  • Hook, a novelization of the 1991 film by Terry Brooks
  • Hook: A Novel for Young Readers, a junior novelization of the 1991 film by Geary Gravel
  • The Hook, a 1996 novel by Raffaella Barker
  • The Hook, a 2000 novel by Donald E. Westlake

Music

  • The Hook (album), by Jukka Tolonen; and title track song
  • "Hook" (Blues Traveler song), from their 1994 album, Four
  • Hook (music), a catchy musical passage

Television

  • Hook (2022 TV series), a program broadcast by ARY Digital
  • "Hook", MacGyver (2016) season 1, episode 16 (2017)
  • "The Hook", Deadliest Catch season 8, episode 4 (2012)
  • "The Hook" (Poker Face), season 1, episode 10 (2023)

Other arts and entertainment

  • Narrative hook, a literary technique designed to grab the reader's interest
  • The Hook (screenplay), an unproduced screenplay by playwright Arthur Miller
  • Hook (video game), four video games based on the Spielberg film

Sports

  • Hook (bowling), the second phase of bowling ball motion, following the skid phase and preceding the roll phase
  • Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
  • Hook (cricket), a shot in cricket
  • Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
  • Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
  • Hook, part of the hook and ladder trick play in football
  • Hook shot, in a type of misplayed golf shot
  • Curveball, a type of baseball pitch

People

  • Hook (surname), a list of people
  • Hook (nickname), a list of people
  • Hook., author abbreviation of English botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865)
  • Hook.f., author abbreviation of English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), the son of William Jackson Hooker
  • Harry Aleman (1939–2010), nicknamed "The Hook", American mobster for the Chicago Outfit

Other uses

  • Hook (computer programming), a computer programming technique
  • Telephone hook, an electrical switch which indicates when the telephone has been hung up
  • Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter nicknamed "Hook"
  • The Hook, a classic urban legend
  • The Hook (newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper from 2002 to 2013
  • WFFM, a radio station licensed to Ashburn, Georgia, formerly branded "Hook FM"
  • Angle (journalism)

See also

  • Hooke (disambiguation)
  • Hooked (disambiguation)
  • Hooks (disambiguation)
  • Hook echo, a feature visible on radar indicative of tornadic rotation in a thunderstorm