Hook-up

Definition

hook /hƱk/ n ၁။ ခ်ိတ္။ ေကာက္။ a coat/ picture hook ❍ a fishhook ❍ Hang your towel on that hook. See also BOAT-HOOK ၂။ (က) (ဘယ္သို႔) ေကြ႕ဆြဲေသာေဘာလံုး။ (ခ) ဝိုက္လက္သီး။ a left hook to the jaw. v ၁။ (က) ခ်ိတ္ျဖင့္ခ်ိတ္သည္။ ခ်ိတ္တြယ္သည္။ ခ်ိတ္သည္။ These two pieces of the chain hook together. ❍ a dress that hooks at the back. ❍ His leg hooked round mine and tripped me up. ❍ hook the caravan (on) to the car. (ခ) (ငါးမွ်ားခ်ိတ္ျဖင့္) ခ်ိတ္၊ ဖမ္းမိသည္။ hook a large fish. ၂။ ေဘာလံုးကို ဝိုက္၍ကန္သည္၊ ဘယ္ဆြဲ႐ိုက္သည္။ ❏ be hooked (on sb) ( sl ) [ IDM ] တမ္းတမ္းစြဲသည္။ ❏ be/ get hooked (on sth) ( sl ) [ IDM ] ၁။ စြဲသည္။ တမ္းတမ္းစြဲသည္။ get hooked on heroin/ computer games. ၂။ စိတ္စြဲေနသည္။ She's completely hooked on the idea of a camping holiday. ❏ be/ get hooked (on sth) ( sl ) [ IDM ] ၁။ စြဲသည္။ တမ္းတမ္းစြဲသည္။ get hooked on heroin/ computer games. ၂။ စိတ္စြဲေနသည္။ She's completely hooked on the idea of a camping holiday. ❏ be hooked (on sb) ( sl ) [ IDM ] တမ္းတမ္းစြဲသည္။ ❏ by hook or by crook [ IDM ] ဘယ္နည္းႏွင့္ျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ တစ္နည္းမဟုတ္တစ္နည္း။ တရားသည္ျဖစ္ေစ မတရားသည္ ျဖစ္ေစ။ She was determined to get to London, by hook or by crook. ❏ get (sb) off the hook; let sb off the hook [ IDM ] ( infml ) အသက္႐ႉေပါက္ရသြားသည္။ The decline of the dollar got the government off the hook. ❍ Despite a good spell of bowling England was not let off the hook. ❏ hook and eye n ( pl hooks and eyes ) (အဝတ္အစားတြင္ အဆက္အစပ္ ပစၥည္းအျဖစ္ သံုးေသာ) ခ်ိတ္ႏွင့္ကြင္း။ do up the hook and eye of a dress. ❏ hooked adj (က) ေကာက္ခ်ိတ္ေနေသာ။ a hooked nose/ beak. (ခ) ခ်ိတ္ (သို႔) ခ်ိတ္မ်ားပါေသာ။ ❏ hook, line and sinker [ IDM ] လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား၊ လံုးဝဥႆံု (အပတ္ခံရသည္)။ What I said was untrue but he fell for it/swallowed it (ie believed it) hook, line and sinker. ❏ hook-nosed adj ႏွာေရာင္ေကာက္ႀကီးႏွင့္။ ေကာက္ခ်ိတ္ ေနေသာ ႏွာေခါင္းႀကီးႏွင့္။ ❏ hook sth/sb up [ PHRV ] ခ်ိတ္ႏွင့္ကြင္းတပ္၍ ဝတ္ေပးသည္။ Please will you hook me up (ie fasten my dress) at the back? ❏ hook (sb/sth) up ( to/with sth ) [ PHRV ] ခ်ိတ္ဆက္သည္။ ဆက္သည္။ be hooked up to a body scanner ❍ The BBC is hooked up with Australian television. ❏ hook-up n အခ်ိတ္အဆက္။ အဆက္အသြယ္။ ခ်ိတ္ဆက္။ a satellite hook-up between the major European networks. ❏ off the hook [ IDM ] (တယ္လီဖုန္းကို) ေဘးခ်ထားသည္။ He left the phone off the hook so that he wouldn't be disturbed.

Examples

1. He hung his coat on a hook on the back of the door.
2. A meat hook
3. A boat hook
4. [a left/right hook] : A left hook to the jaw
5. Their music is packed with catchy hooks that grab you right off the bat.