Usually means: Sex worker providing paid services.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word hooker:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hooker, hooker: Merriam-Webster
  2. hooker, hooker, hooker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hooker, hooker, hooker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hooker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hooker, hooker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hooker, hooker: Wordnik
  7. hooker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hooker, hooker: Wiktionary
  9. hooker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hooker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hooker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hooker, hooker: Dictionary.com
  13. hooker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hooker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hooker (rugby league), Hooker (rugby union), Hooker (surname), Hooker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hooker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hooker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hooker: Rhymezone
  19. Hooker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hooker: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hooker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Hooker: The Word Detective
  23. Hooker: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Hooker: World Wide Words
  25. hooker: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. hooker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hooker: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HOOKER, HOOKER, HOOKER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hooker [possibly offensive]: ESL Slang page
  3. Hooker: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See hookering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who, or that which, hooks.
noun:  A small fishing boat.
noun:  (nautical, slang, derogatory) Any antiquated craft.
noun:  (rugby) A player who hooks the ball out of the scrum with his foot.
noun:  (cricket) A batsman or batswoman adept at or fond of playing hook shots.
noun:  A crocheter.
noun:  (informal, dated) Synonym of hook (“attention-grabbing element of a creative work”)
noun:  (archaic, thieves' cant) A thief who uses a pole with a hook on the end to steal goods.
noun:  (US, slang) A prostitute.
noun:  (slang, dated, 1920s to 1940s) An imprecise measure of alcoholic drink; a "slug" (of gin), or an overlarge gulp.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a maker of hooks.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Dade County, Georgia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
noun:  A ghost town in Pulaski County, Missouri.
noun:  Two townships in Nebraska, in Dixon County and Gage County.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Ohio.
noun:  A small city in Texas County, Oklahoma.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Turner County, South Dakota.
noun:  Alternative spelling of hookah [(recreational inhalants) A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.]

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