hook off

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To unhook or remove from a hook.
    — At about 4.5 p.m. it come back, tender in front, with 15 or 16 waggons, and stopped with the last of the waggons clear of No. 7; about five were hooked off and let down into the siding by gravity, and as soon as I had restored No. 7 point for the main line, the driver had put the engine into foraward motion and was just upon starting when the collision took place at 4.8 p.m. three minutes before the passenger train was due in the station.
  2. To curve to the side from a straight trajectory.
    — The road you were on would change; you'd be driving on 35, and if you missed the small road that hooked off to the left, you'd suddenly be on 211.
  3. To remove with a hooking motion.
    — Rub-a-rub, rub-a-rub, three dabs and scrub, Two covers hooked off the arm-chairs Them dusters and towels, each marked with two vowels, Will bring a good thing, I declares!
  4. To depart, especially when finishing something or giving up on something. slang
    — "Somebody has hooked off with your pie," he blurted in a desponding tone.
  5. To punch with the arm rigid and partially bent.
    — Cody hooked off his jab and tagged Ray with a smart left.

词形变化

hooks off present,singular,third-person hooking off participle,present hooked off participle,past hooked off past
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