1. crook - Noun
2. crook - Adjective
3. crook - Verb
4. Crook - Proper noun
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. F. Scott Fitzgerald
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember. Homer
God marks the crook. Russian Proverb
By hook or by crook. English Proverb
By hook or by crook. Latin Proverb