hooker   (TTS Sound)

The noun hooker has 5 senses

• Hooker, Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe Hooker -- (United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879))


• Hooker, Richard Hooker -- (English theologian (1554-1600))


• streetwalker, street girl, hooker, hustler, floozy, floozie, slattern -- (a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets)


• hooker -- (a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers))


• hooker -- ((rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot)