Hook (disambiguation)

A hook is a tool with a curved end.

Hook may also refer to:

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, the Netherlands, a town
• Hook granite massif, Zambia

Language

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

Arts and entertainment

• Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
• Narrative hook, a literary technique designed to grab the reader's interest
• Hook (filmmaking), a cinematic technique to grab the viewer's interest
• The Hook (album), by Jukka Tolonen
• "Hook" (Blues Traveler song)
• Hook (film), a 1991 fantasy continuation of J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
  • Hook (video game), four video games based on the film
• The Hook (film), several films
• Hook (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
• Captain Hook, a fictional pirate in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan and other works
• the title character of Trooper Hook, a 1957 Western film, played by Joel McCrea
• Mr. Hook, a character in several 1940s American animated cartoon shorts produced for the US Navy
• The Hook (screenplay), an unproduced screenplay by playwright, Arthur Miller

Sports

• Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
• Hook (bowling), a curving ball
• Hook (cricket), a shot in cricket
• Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
• Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
• 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

Other uses

• Telephone hook, an electrical switch which indicates when the telephone has been hung up
• Battle of the Hook, of the Korean war
• Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter nicknamed "Hook"
• Hook Lighthouse, Ireland
• Hook Windmill, East Hampton, New York
• The Hook, a classic urban legend
• Hook Continental, a passenger train running between London's Liverpool Street Station and Harwich Parkeston Quay
• 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

• All pages beginning with "Hook (disambiguation)"
• All pages with titles containing Hook (disambiguation)
• Hooke (disambiguation)
• Hooked (disambiguation)
• Hooks (disambiguation)
• Hook echo, a feature visible on radar indicative of tornadic rotation in a thunderstorm
• Hook Gang, a late-19th century American street gang and later river pirates in New York City
• Hooking, a computer programming technique