Defenition of the word crook

• Defenition of the word crook

  • A person that has conducted a criminal act.
  • An angle or sharp curve in the course of a road, river, etc.
  • a circular segment of a curve: "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
  • someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
  • bend or cause to bend
  • a long staff with one end being hook shaped
  • a circular segment of a curve; "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
  • bend or cause to bend; "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"
  • someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
  • a circular segment of a curve

Synonyms for the word crook

• • bend
  • criminal
  • curve
  • felon
  • lawbreaker
  • malefactor
  • offender
  • outlaw
  • robber
  • shepard's crook
  • turn
  • villain

Similar words in the crook

• • crook
  • crook's
  • crooked
  • crookeder
  • crookedest
  • crookedly
  • crookedness
  • crookedness's
  • crookes
  • crookes's
  • crooking
  • crooks

Hyponyms for the word crook

• • abductor
  • accessary
  • accessory
  • arsonist
  • bight
  • Billie the Kid
  • blackmailer
  • Bonney
  • bootlegger
  • briber
  • coconspirator
  • conspirator
  • contrabandist
  • desperado
  • desperate criminal
  • drug dealer
  • drug peddler
  • drug trafficker
  • extortioner
  • extortionist
  • firebug
  • fugitive
  • fugitive from justice
  • gangster
  • gangster's moll
  • gaolbird
  • goon
  • gun moll
  • habitual criminal
  • highbinder
  • highjacker
  • hijacker
  • hood
  • hoodlum
  • incendiary
  • jail bird
  • jailbird
  • James
  • Jesse James
  • kidnaper
  • kidnapper
  • law offender
  • lawbreaker
  • liquidator
  • MacGregor
  • machinator
  • mafioso
  • manslayer
  • mobster
  • moll
  • moon curser
  • moon-curser
  • moonshiner
  • murderer
  • parolee
  • peddler
  • plotter
  • probationer
  • punk
  • pusher
  • racketeer
  • raper
  • rapist
  • recidivist
  • recurve
  • repeater
  • Rob Roy
  • Robert MacGregor
  • runner
  • scofflaw
  • smuggler
  • snatcher
  • stealer
  • strong-armer
  • suborner
  • thief
  • thug
  • tough
  • toughie
  • traitor
  • treasonist
  • violator
  • William H. Bonney

Hypernyms for the word crook

• • bend
  • curve
  • curved shape
  • flex
  • offender
  • principal
  • staff
  • surname
  • wrongdoer

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