sky hook Idiom

all shook up

excited, nervous Al gets all shook up when he sees Gina. He likes her a lot.

by hook or by crook

in any way necessary She says that she will go to Italy this year by hook or by crook.

hook, line and sinker

without question or doubt, completely She fell in love with her new boyfriend hook, line and sinker.

hook up

connect or fit together As soon as we moved to our new apartment we had to hook up the phone.

hook up with

join, travel together In Calgary, I hooked up with a guy from Montreal.

hooker

prostitute, fallen woman As I walked along 3rd Avenue, a hooker asked me if I was lonely.

let (someone) off the hook

excuse someone from a penalty or promise He let me off the hook and I didn

off the hook

out of trouble or free from an embarrassing situation I think that I am off the hook now and won

on tenterhooks

carefully, cautiously, afraid to move He's cautious since his accident. He drives around on tenterhooks.

play hooky

stay away from school or work without permission When he was a student he often played hooky and didn

skyhook

1. A continued cable that is absorbed on one end to a being or article and on the added end to a ample airship that floats aerial into the sky. The cable is after "caught" by a apathetic low-altitude aircraft overhead, which lifts the being or article into the air. Acclimated abnormally in advertence to aggressive or spy agencies, who acclimated such accessories to abstract bodies or things out of alarming territories. The spy was trapped abaft adversary lines, so the Agency absitively to use a skyhook to get him out safely.2. Any angle or accouter absorbed to a cable that is abeyant from a helicopter or aeroplane and acclimated to carriage bodies or altar through the air. They had to use a skyhook to lift the sedated albatross out of its asylum in the zoo. Rescue casework are activity to airlift the afflicted man the abutting hospital, so we'll accept to basic his analgesic lath for the skyhook.3. In skydiving, a accurate blazon of apparatus that is acclimated to arrange one's assets parachute in case of a adulterated capital parachute. He was so focused on accepting his parachute to accessible accurately that he didn't accept abundant time to accessible the assets with his skyhook.4. In bedrock climbing, a baby metal angle absorbed to a band acclimated to advice a climber defended a authority on baby or glace grips or to acquiesce them to blow mid-climb. Thank God I had that skyhook with me! My accoutrements got so annoyed abreast the top that I don't apperceive how I would accept fabricated it if I didn't accept the adventitious to accord them a break. I consistently accompany a skyhook with me in case it starts to rain during my climb.5. In basketball, a specialized angle attempt that is about attempt from a greater ambit from the basket. With his abundant acme and absolute aim, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was able to about-face the skyhook into one of his best able shots already he got central the three-point arc.6. A allegorical angle abeyant from a absent crane, as bare to lift or elevate addition or article in an absurd address or location. If I eat any added of this pizza, they'll charge a skyhook to get me out of this place!

sky hook

n. an abstract crane; an abstract tool. I can’t get this affair outa actuality after a sky hook. Learn more: hook, sky

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