Usually means: Completely and unquestionably believe something.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word hook line and sinker:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. hook, line and sinker: Merriam-Webster
  2. hook, line, and sinker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hook, line, and sinker, hook, line, and sinker: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hook line and sinker: Vocabulary.com
  5. hook, line, and sinker, hook line and sinker: Dictionary.com
  6. Hook Line and Sinker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. hook line and sinker: Rhymezone
  8. hook line and sinker: FreeDictionary.org
  9. hook line and sinker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. hook, line, and sinker, hook line and sinker: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. hook line and sinker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hook, line, and sinker: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hook, Line and Sinker, hook line and sinker: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from WordNet (hook line and sinker)

adverb:  in every detail

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