HOOKER

Hooker

Hooker is one of the positions in rugby league football. Usually wearing jersey number 9, the hooker is one of the team's forwards. During scrums the hooker plays in the front row, and the position's name comes from their role of 'hooking' or 'raking' the ball back with the foot. For this reason the hooker is sometimes referred to as the rake.

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hooker

Noun

  1. One who, or that which, hooks.
  2. A prostitute.
  3. A small fishing boat.
  4. Any antiquated craft.
  5. A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
  6. A crocheter.
  7. A measurement of alcohol without definite amounts, meaning the same thing as a "slug" (of gin), an overlarge gulp. Used from the 1920s through the 1940s.


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