Definition of crook in English:

crook

noun krʊkkrʊk

1The hooked staff of a shepherd.
（牧羊人的）曲柄杖
seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs
Example sentencesExamples
- The challenge replicates the traditions of the game when shepherds played across country hitting stones with their crooks.
- The shepherd's crook is not for beating the sheep, but for catching hold of them if they go into danger where the shepherd's arm can't reach them.
- Every year more and more shepherds hang up their crooks.
- Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook.
- The haft of the crook must be formed of unpeeled hazel for the shepherds will not have ash.
Synonyms
walking stick, cane, staff
1. 1.1 A bishop's crozier.
  （主教的）权杖
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dressed in full regalia with mitre and crook, Bishop David then led a prayer of thanks for the new school and everyone who worked and studied in it.
  Instead the Mitchell brothers are generally busy making crooks for bishops and hikers.
  Now I find myself completely unmoved by badges of hierarchy, of mitres and crooks and crowns.
  It bears the images of a bishop's crook, a few trees and some clumps of grass inside a shield.
  Coming forward, I looked at our canonical crook in suspicion.
2. 1.2 A bend in something, especially at the elbow in a person's arm.
  弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处）
  her head was cradled in the crook of Luke's left arm
  她的头枕在卢克的左胳膊的臂弯里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The lover lies face down on the ground under the full moon, with his head barely resting in the crook of his elbow.
  Before walking in I'd removed my shoes so as to make even less noise and now I held them in the crook of my elbow as I tiptoed across the entryway to the stairs.
  Her green jacket was loosely draped in the crook of her elbow, and her jeans were clean, as if they had been purchased recently.
  Scars face me, across her wrist and in the crook of her elbow.
  That's not as easy a task as it was when I was a young man, but there one was, neatly in the crook of my elbow.
  Tristan grabbed the crook of my elbow and led me outside.
  Then I grab the TV controller and bottle in right hand, baby safely tucked away in the crook of my left elbow and plop down on the couch.
  Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet.
  Rebekah looked lovingly down on the sweet face in the crook of her elbow.
  I suddenly found it hard to concentrate on the needle the first doctor had shoved into the crook of my elbow.
  Laughing, Eryalith grabbed the crook of Ariane's elbow.
  I started getting patches of it in the crook of my elbows, on my neck and around my eyes.
  She nodded silently and stared stupidly down at the crook of her elbow.
  A black smudge squiggles in the crook of his elbow.
  She brought the free arm up to join the other one under her head, and settled her forehead into the crook of her elbow.
  The stethoscope that comes with some models is used to listen to the sounds your blood makes as it flows through the brachial artery in the crook of your elbow.
  I tapped a vein in the crook of my elbow to demonstrate.
  To draw blood for the test, a nurse or technician cleans the skin over a vein, usually in the crook of your elbow, inserts a needle, and collects blood into a syringe or vial.
  The crook of his elbow hurt from the blood transfusion.
  ‘Well, this is my stop,’ she sighed, rubbing the crook of her elbow.
  Synonyms
  bend, curve, curvature, kink, bow, elbow, angle, fork, intersection
  technical flexure
3. 1.3 A piece of extra tubing which can be fitted to a brass instrument to lower the pitch by a set interval.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Further notes became available when added lengths of tube, known as crooks or shanks, could be fitted.
  Early in the 18th century, horns began to be made on which separate coils of tubing of different lengths, called crooks, could be inserted at the mouthpipe to give the horn a different key.
2informal A person who is dishonest or a criminal.
〈非正式〉骗子；罪犯
the man's a crook, he's not to be trusted
Example sentencesExamples
- We want our border patrol agents chasing crooks and thieves and terrorists not good-hearted people coming here to work.
- He drew crowds, cared for the marginalised, made friends with prostitutes and crooks, and called ordinary people like you and me to be his followers.
- Only those with something to hide - like crooks, terrorists, fraudsters and benefit cheats - should worry.
- The crooks behind it use letters, faxes and e-mails to randomly target victims and although most people ignore them police estimate that about one per cent actually respond.
- We're programmed to believe that the athletes we watch are all crooks, criminals and creeps.
- Its history is littered with crooks, conmen and charlatans.
- This evoked from Augustine the sad observation that there are crooks in every profession.
- The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists.
- This data is then surreptitiously transmitted to crooks, allowing their young accomplices to later empty bank accounts.
- Frankly, most voters think most politicians, and their staffs, are a bunch of crooks already.
- To suggest that Scotland would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
- Bernie's team work hard to catch thieves, whether car crooks or shoplifters.
- Police have spoken of their disgust at a new fraud scam where crooks pretend to represent the Vatican and dupe the public into handing over bank details.
- He's shoved a microphone under the noses of more crooks than a shepherd convention.
- The message going out to the crooks and the fraudsters is that this Government takes immigration fraud seriously, and that the behaviour will not be tolerated.
- Some of those who want him dead are the hardest crooks in the country.
- The majority of prisoners are crooks, thugs, murderers and rapists, who took the lives of people and did irreparable damage to women and young girls.
- A small-time crook threatens to blow up a New York landmark unless his demands for money are met.
- Still, there was no dent in the criminal network, with crooks continuing to appear on the front page more often than the good guys.
- The sport, if that's what it is, has seen way more than its fair share of gangsters and con men and other crooks.
Synonyms
criminal, lawbreaker, offender, villain, black hat, delinquent, malefactor, culprit, wrongdoer, transgressor, sinner
young offender, juvenile delinquent
felon, thief, robber, armed robber, burglar, housebreaker, shoplifter, mugger, fraudster, confidence trickster, swindler, racketeer, gunman, gangster, outlaw, bandit, terrorist, rapist
in Japan yakuza
informal con, jailbird, (old) lag, lifer, baddy, shark, conman, con artist, hustler
North American informal yardbird, yegg
Australian informal crim
South African informal lighty
West Indian informal tief
British rhyming slang tea leaf
informal, dated cracksman
Law malfeasant, misfeasor, infractor
archaic miscreant, trespasser, trusty, transport
rare peculator, defalcator

verb krʊkkrʊk

[with object]

Bend (something, especially a finger as a signal)
弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处）
he crooked a finger for the waitress
他向女服务员弯弯手指，让她过来。
Example sentencesExamples
- Mabel pinned the girl with an extra firm, accessing look, before crooking a finger in Larry's direction, suggesting that he follow her.
- He stopped in front of my door and crooked his thumb towards it.
- He held up a bottle of beer, pointed at it, pointed at Hank, and crooked his finger invitingly.
- He crooked one arm out before him, fingers and thumb opening and closing, the other arm he bent into a ‘hump’ on his back.
- He looked at me and I shook my head and crooked my finger.
- Moving to stand beside her chair, he crooked an arm.
- He crooked a finger at me, and Liv gave me a good shove on my behind.
- She's neglected her tab until it's burnt down to the filter, leaving a dirty, grey finger crooking up at him.
- Phil nodded his head and crooked a finger before turning and walking off to his bedroom.
- Caroline stopped walking and turned to her husband, crooking her finger.
- ‘Come with me,’ she said calmly, crooking her finger at him, turning and walking down the corridor.
- Mrs. Fitzgerald smiled icily at her son, and crooked a finger in the direction of the anxious butler.
- He crooked a beckoning finger.
- Rather than lead him home like a child, she made him crook his arm and she slipped her hand into it.
- ‘Don't put your filthy hands on it,’ I said crooking a finger at her.
- I crooked my finger at her with a victorious grin.
- A long, bony finger came crooking through, and turned the window handle.
- I crooked a finger and used it to gently raise her chin up.
- You could have crooked your finger after the first night, and I would have come running.
- Maude smiled, too, and crooked a finger, beckoning Lydia to come in.
Synonyms
cock, flex, bend, curve, curl, angle, hook, bow

adjective krʊkkrʊk

Australian, NZ informal

1Bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉（尤指情况）糟糕的；令人不快的；令人不满的
it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s
20世纪70年代早期，这块地简直糟透了。
Example sentencesExamples
- We had a bad phone call at about 1.30 in the morning and after that have had a couple of crook letters.
- So laughter is the answer to all the crook things that happen.
- This is about units in the normal market, which are regarded by many as a crook investment at the best of times.
1. 1.1 (of a person or a part of the body) unwell or injured.
  （人或身体的某部位）有病的；受伤的
  a crook knee
  受伤的膝盖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And despite battling a weak heart and a crook knee, Donald can't see himself giving away his volunteer work anytime soon.
  Michael came to Britain when his frail crook father returned and gave himself up in May, after 35 years on the run.
  Just like a carpet layer gets crook knees, people in the drug scene will end up in jail or dead.
  There is also no doubt it makes you crook next day.
  ‘I'm not a doctor but if blokes are crook they should stay home,’ he said.
2. 1.2 Dishonest; illegal.
  不诚实的；非法的
  some pretty crook things went on there
  那儿发生了一些在相当程度上是违法的事情。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the most part, this is true; nobody really needs a third party to inform them that their boss is a crook bastard.

Phrases

be crook on

informal Be annoyed by.
〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉对…发火（或生气）
you're crook on me because I didn't walk out with you
因为我没有和你一起去罢工，你在对我生气。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘What a relief, I'd have been crook on myself if I'd have mucked up then, ’.
- What fascinated me though was in Wallace's communist football Utopia he was crook on what some clubs were able to pay their assistant coaches.
- I was crook on them, but fortunately with time you learn to give it up.
- ‘Madam, you've been crook on me ever since I refused to sleep with you’.

go crook

informal Lose one's temper.
〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉发脾气
we rolled him for his overcoat—you ought to have heard him go crook
Example sentencesExamples
- He invited me in just in case Bev went crook.
- And if that happens, you don't tend to go crook at your partner, and if you do go crook at your partner, well then you have little chance of being a good doubles players I think.

Derivatives

crookery

noun

Our adult children now all do their banking on the internet and are happy to take their chances with electronic crookery, but I am of the old school who likes to see the whites of a teller's eyes when making a deposit.
Example sentencesExamples
- And that was before the extent of his crookery became visible to the wider community.
- Elect me, and crime, crookery, criminality, venality and bad parking will vanish like crossroads dancing.
- When we each get up to our particular bit of crookery and deviousness we don't say, ‘I'm stealing or cheating’ we say ‘I'm beating the system.’
- The Guardian summarised these difficulties rather well: ‘Missing [but not kidnapped or murdered] children, jealous spouses, petty crookery, ostrich rustling and beauty contest corruption.’

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'hooked tool or weapon'): from Old Norse krókr 'hook'. A noun sense 'deceit, guile, trickery' (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked.

A crook was originally a hooked tool or weapon. The source is Old Norse krokr ‘hook’. The word used to mean ‘dishonest trick, guile’ in medieval English, and although this sense had fallen from use by the 17th century it gave rise to villains being known as crooks in late 19th-century America. In Australia and New Zealand crook has meant ‘bad, unpleasant’, ‘dishonest, unscrupulous’, and ‘ill, unwell’ since the late 1890s. These uses might come from the old British thieves' slang sense ‘stolen’.

Rhymes

betook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook

Definition of crook in US English:

crook

nounkro͝okkrʊk

1The hooked staff of a shepherd.
（牧羊人的）曲柄杖
Example sentencesExamples
- The haft of the crook must be formed of unpeeled hazel for the shepherds will not have ash.
- The challenge replicates the traditions of the game when shepherds played across country hitting stones with their crooks.
- Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook.
- Every year more and more shepherds hang up their crooks.
- The shepherd's crook is not for beating the sheep, but for catching hold of them if they go into danger where the shepherd's arm can't reach them.
Synonyms
walking stick, cane, staff
1. 1.1 A bishop's crozier.
  （主教的）权杖
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dressed in full regalia with mitre and crook, Bishop David then led a prayer of thanks for the new school and everyone who worked and studied in it.
  Now I find myself completely unmoved by badges of hierarchy, of mitres and crooks and crowns.
  Instead the Mitchell brothers are generally busy making crooks for bishops and hikers.
  Coming forward, I looked at our canonical crook in suspicion.
  It bears the images of a bishop's crook, a few trees and some clumps of grass inside a shield.
2. 1.2 A bend in something, especially at the elbow in a person's arm.
  弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处）
  her head was cradled in the crook of Luke's left arm
  她的头枕在卢克的左胳膊的臂弯里。
  Example sentencesExamples
  To draw blood for the test, a nurse or technician cleans the skin over a vein, usually in the crook of your elbow, inserts a needle, and collects blood into a syringe or vial.
  Rebekah looked lovingly down on the sweet face in the crook of her elbow.
  ‘Well, this is my stop,’ she sighed, rubbing the crook of her elbow.
  Tristan grabbed the crook of my elbow and led me outside.
  She brought the free arm up to join the other one under her head, and settled her forehead into the crook of her elbow.
  Before walking in I'd removed my shoes so as to make even less noise and now I held them in the crook of my elbow as I tiptoed across the entryway to the stairs.
  The crook of his elbow hurt from the blood transfusion.
  The lover lies face down on the ground under the full moon, with his head barely resting in the crook of his elbow.
  Her green jacket was loosely draped in the crook of her elbow, and her jeans were clean, as if they had been purchased recently.
  Scars face me, across her wrist and in the crook of her elbow.
  I suddenly found it hard to concentrate on the needle the first doctor had shoved into the crook of my elbow.
  A black smudge squiggles in the crook of his elbow.
  I started getting patches of it in the crook of my elbows, on my neck and around my eyes.
  Then I grab the TV controller and bottle in right hand, baby safely tucked away in the crook of my left elbow and plop down on the couch.
  That's not as easy a task as it was when I was a young man, but there one was, neatly in the crook of my elbow.
  She nodded silently and stared stupidly down at the crook of her elbow.
  I tapped a vein in the crook of my elbow to demonstrate.
  The stethoscope that comes with some models is used to listen to the sounds your blood makes as it flows through the brachial artery in the crook of your elbow.
  Laughing, Eryalith grabbed the crook of Ariane's elbow.
  Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet.
  Synonyms
  bend, curve, curvature, kink, bow, elbow, angle, fork, intersection
3. 1.3 A piece of extra tubing which can be fitted to a brass instrument to lower the pitch by a set interval.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Further notes became available when added lengths of tube, known as crooks or shanks, could be fitted.
  Early in the 18th century, horns began to be made on which separate coils of tubing of different lengths, called crooks, could be inserted at the mouthpipe to give the horn a different key.
4. 1.4 A metal tube on which the reed of some wind instruments (such as the bassoon) is set.
2informal A person who is dishonest or a criminal.
〈非正式〉骗子；罪犯
Example sentencesExamples
- Frankly, most voters think most politicians, and their staffs, are a bunch of crooks already.
- The crooks behind it use letters, faxes and e-mails to randomly target victims and although most people ignore them police estimate that about one per cent actually respond.
- Still, there was no dent in the criminal network, with crooks continuing to appear on the front page more often than the good guys.
- Only those with something to hide - like crooks, terrorists, fraudsters and benefit cheats - should worry.
- We're programmed to believe that the athletes we watch are all crooks, criminals and creeps.
- A small-time crook threatens to blow up a New York landmark unless his demands for money are met.
- Police have spoken of their disgust at a new fraud scam where crooks pretend to represent the Vatican and dupe the public into handing over bank details.
- He drew crowds, cared for the marginalised, made friends with prostitutes and crooks, and called ordinary people like you and me to be his followers.
- This data is then surreptitiously transmitted to crooks, allowing their young accomplices to later empty bank accounts.
- The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists.
- He's shoved a microphone under the noses of more crooks than a shepherd convention.
- We want our border patrol agents chasing crooks and thieves and terrorists not good-hearted people coming here to work.
- The sport, if that's what it is, has seen way more than its fair share of gangsters and con men and other crooks.
- The majority of prisoners are crooks, thugs, murderers and rapists, who took the lives of people and did irreparable damage to women and young girls.
- Its history is littered with crooks, conmen and charlatans.
- This evoked from Augustine the sad observation that there are crooks in every profession.
- Some of those who want him dead are the hardest crooks in the country.
- Bernie's team work hard to catch thieves, whether car crooks or shoplifters.
- To suggest that Scotland would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
- The message going out to the crooks and the fraudsters is that this Government takes immigration fraud seriously, and that the behaviour will not be tolerated.
Synonyms
criminal, lawbreaker, offender, villain, black hat, delinquent, malefactor, culprit, wrongdoer, transgressor, sinner

verbkro͝okkrʊk

[with object]

Bend (something, especially a finger as a signal)
弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处）
he crooked a finger for the waitress
他向女服务员弯弯手指，让她过来。
Example sentencesExamples
- Phil nodded his head and crooked a finger before turning and walking off to his bedroom.
- She's neglected her tab until it's burnt down to the filter, leaving a dirty, grey finger crooking up at him.
- He crooked a finger at me, and Liv gave me a good shove on my behind.
- ‘Come with me,’ she said calmly, crooking her finger at him, turning and walking down the corridor.
- He crooked one arm out before him, fingers and thumb opening and closing, the other arm he bent into a ‘hump’ on his back.
- I crooked my finger at her with a victorious grin.
- You could have crooked your finger after the first night, and I would have come running.
- He stopped in front of my door and crooked his thumb towards it.
- I crooked a finger and used it to gently raise her chin up.
- Maude smiled, too, and crooked a finger, beckoning Lydia to come in.
- He looked at me and I shook my head and crooked my finger.
- Mabel pinned the girl with an extra firm, accessing look, before crooking a finger in Larry's direction, suggesting that he follow her.
- ‘Don't put your filthy hands on it,’ I said crooking a finger at her.
- He held up a bottle of beer, pointed at it, pointed at Hank, and crooked his finger invitingly.
- Rather than lead him home like a child, she made him crook his arm and she slipped her hand into it.
- A long, bony finger came crooking through, and turned the window handle.
- Mrs. Fitzgerald smiled icily at her son, and crooked a finger in the direction of the anxious butler.
- Moving to stand beside her chair, he crooked an arm.
- He crooked a beckoning finger.
- Caroline stopped walking and turned to her husband, crooking her finger.
Synonyms
cock, flex, bend, curve, curl, angle, hook, bow

adjectivekro͝okkrʊk

Australian, NZ informal

1(especially of a situation) bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉（尤指情况）糟糕的；令人不快的；令人不满的
it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s
20世纪70年代早期，这块地简直糟透了。
Example sentencesExamples
- We had a bad phone call at about 1.30 in the morning and after that have had a couple of crook letters.
- This is about units in the normal market, which are regarded by many as a crook investment at the best of times.
- So laughter is the answer to all the crook things that happen.
1. 1.1 (of a person or a part of the body) unwell or injured.
  （人或身体的某部位）有病的；受伤的
  a crook knee
  受伤的膝盖。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is also no doubt it makes you crook next day.
  Michael came to Britain when his frail crook father returned and gave himself up in May, after 35 years on the run.
  ‘I'm not a doctor but if blokes are crook they should stay home,’ he said.
  Just like a carpet layer gets crook knees, people in the drug scene will end up in jail or dead.
  And despite battling a weak heart and a crook knee, Donald can't see himself giving away his volunteer work anytime soon.
2. 1.2 Dishonest; illegal.
  不诚实的；非法的
  some pretty crook things went on there
  那儿发生了一些在相当程度上是违法的事情。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the most part, this is true; nobody really needs a third party to inform them that their boss is a crook bastard.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked.

单词	crook
释义	Definition of crook in English: crook noun krʊkkrʊk 1The hooked staff of a shepherd. （牧羊人的）曲柄杖 seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs Example sentencesExamples The challenge replicates the traditions of the game when shepherds played across country hitting stones with their crooks. The shepherd's crook is not for beating the sheep, but for catching hold of them if they go into danger where the shepherd's arm can't reach them. Every year more and more shepherds hang up their crooks. Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook. The haft of the crook must be formed of unpeeled hazel for the shepherds will not have ash. Synonyms walking stick, cane, staff 1.1 A bishop's crozier. （主教的）权杖 Example sentencesExamples Dressed in full regalia with mitre and crook, Bishop David then led a prayer of thanks for the new school and everyone who worked and studied in it. Instead the Mitchell brothers are generally busy making crooks for bishops and hikers. Now I find myself completely unmoved by badges of hierarchy, of mitres and crooks and crowns. It bears the images of a bishop's crook, a few trees and some clumps of grass inside a shield. Coming forward, I looked at our canonical crook in suspicion. 1.2 A bend in something, especially at the elbow in a person's arm. 弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处） her head was cradled in the crook of Luke's left arm 她的头枕在卢克的左胳膊的臂弯里。 Example sentencesExamples The lover lies face down on the ground under the full moon, with his head barely resting in the crook of his elbow. Before walking in I'd removed my shoes so as to make even less noise and now I held them in the crook of my elbow as I tiptoed across the entryway to the stairs. Her green jacket was loosely draped in the crook of her elbow, and her jeans were clean, as if they had been purchased recently. Scars face me, across her wrist and in the crook of her elbow. That's not as easy a task as it was when I was a young man, but there one was, neatly in the crook of my elbow. Tristan grabbed the crook of my elbow and led me outside. Then I grab the TV controller and bottle in right hand, baby safely tucked away in the crook of my left elbow and plop down on the couch. Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet. Rebekah looked lovingly down on the sweet face in the crook of her elbow. I suddenly found it hard to concentrate on the needle the first doctor had shoved into the crook of my elbow. Laughing, Eryalith grabbed the crook of Ariane's elbow. I started getting patches of it in the crook of my elbows, on my neck and around my eyes. She nodded silently and stared stupidly down at the crook of her elbow. A black smudge squiggles in the crook of his elbow. She brought the free arm up to join the other one under her head, and settled her forehead into the crook of her elbow. The stethoscope that comes with some models is used to listen to the sounds your blood makes as it flows through the brachial artery in the crook of your elbow. I tapped a vein in the crook of my elbow to demonstrate. To draw blood for the test, a nurse or technician cleans the skin over a vein, usually in the crook of your elbow, inserts a needle, and collects blood into a syringe or vial. The crook of his elbow hurt from the blood transfusion. ‘Well, this is my stop,’ she sighed, rubbing the crook of her elbow. Synonyms bend, curve, curvature, kink, bow, elbow, angle, fork, intersection technical flexure 1.3 A piece of extra tubing which can be fitted to a brass instrument to lower the pitch by a set interval. Example sentencesExamples Further notes became available when added lengths of tube, known as crooks or shanks, could be fitted. Early in the 18th century, horns began to be made on which separate coils of tubing of different lengths, called crooks, could be inserted at the mouthpipe to give the horn a different key. 2informal A person who is dishonest or a criminal. 〈非正式〉骗子；罪犯 the man's a crook, he's not to be trusted Example sentencesExamples We want our border patrol agents chasing crooks and thieves and terrorists not good-hearted people coming here to work. He drew crowds, cared for the marginalised, made friends with prostitutes and crooks, and called ordinary people like you and me to be his followers. Only those with something to hide - like crooks, terrorists, fraudsters and benefit cheats - should worry. The crooks behind it use letters, faxes and e-mails to randomly target victims and although most people ignore them police estimate that about one per cent actually respond. We're programmed to believe that the athletes we watch are all crooks, criminals and creeps. Its history is littered with crooks, conmen and charlatans. This evoked from Augustine the sad observation that there are crooks in every profession. The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists. This data is then surreptitiously transmitted to crooks, allowing their young accomplices to later empty bank accounts. Frankly, most voters think most politicians, and their staffs, are a bunch of crooks already. To suggest that Scotland would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration. Bernie's team work hard to catch thieves, whether car crooks or shoplifters. Police have spoken of their disgust at a new fraud scam where crooks pretend to represent the Vatican and dupe the public into handing over bank details. He's shoved a microphone under the noses of more crooks than a shepherd convention. The message going out to the crooks and the fraudsters is that this Government takes immigration fraud seriously, and that the behaviour will not be tolerated. Some of those who want him dead are the hardest crooks in the country. The majority of prisoners are crooks, thugs, murderers and rapists, who took the lives of people and did irreparable damage to women and young girls. A small-time crook threatens to blow up a New York landmark unless his demands for money are met. Still, there was no dent in the criminal network, with crooks continuing to appear on the front page more often than the good guys. The sport, if that's what it is, has seen way more than its fair share of gangsters and con men and other crooks. Synonyms criminal, lawbreaker, offender, villain, black hat, delinquent, malefactor, culprit, wrongdoer, transgressor, sinner young offender, juvenile delinquent felon, thief, robber, armed robber, burglar, housebreaker, shoplifter, mugger, fraudster, confidence trickster, swindler, racketeer, gunman, gangster, outlaw, bandit, terrorist, rapist in Japan yakuza informal con, jailbird, (old) lag, lifer, baddy, shark, conman, con artist, hustler North American informal yardbird, yegg Australian informal crim South African informal lighty West Indian informal tief British rhyming slang tea leaf informal, dated cracksman Law malfeasant, misfeasor, infractor archaic miscreant, trespasser, trusty, transport rare peculator, defalcator verb krʊkkrʊk [with object] Bend (something, especially a finger as a signal) 弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处） he crooked a finger for the waitress 他向女服务员弯弯手指，让她过来。 Example sentencesExamples Mabel pinned the girl with an extra firm, accessing look, before crooking a finger in Larry's direction, suggesting that he follow her. He stopped in front of my door and crooked his thumb towards it. He held up a bottle of beer, pointed at it, pointed at Hank, and crooked his finger invitingly. He crooked one arm out before him, fingers and thumb opening and closing, the other arm he bent into a ‘hump’ on his back. He looked at me and I shook my head and crooked my finger. Moving to stand beside her chair, he crooked an arm. He crooked a finger at me, and Liv gave me a good shove on my behind. She's neglected her tab until it's burnt down to the filter, leaving a dirty, grey finger crooking up at him. Phil nodded his head and crooked a finger before turning and walking off to his bedroom. Caroline stopped walking and turned to her husband, crooking her finger. ‘Come with me,’ she said calmly, crooking her finger at him, turning and walking down the corridor. Mrs. Fitzgerald smiled icily at her son, and crooked a finger in the direction of the anxious butler. He crooked a beckoning finger. Rather than lead him home like a child, she made him crook his arm and she slipped her hand into it. ‘Don't put your filthy hands on it,’ I said crooking a finger at her. I crooked my finger at her with a victorious grin. A long, bony finger came crooking through, and turned the window handle. I crooked a finger and used it to gently raise her chin up. You could have crooked your finger after the first night, and I would have come running. Maude smiled, too, and crooked a finger, beckoning Lydia to come in. Synonyms cock, flex, bend, curve, curl, angle, hook, bow adjective krʊkkrʊk Australian, NZ informal 1Bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory. 〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉（尤指情况）糟糕的；令人不快的；令人不满的 it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s 20世纪70年代早期，这块地简直糟透了。 Example sentencesExamples We had a bad phone call at about 1.30 in the morning and after that have had a couple of crook letters. So laughter is the answer to all the crook things that happen. This is about units in the normal market, which are regarded by many as a crook investment at the best of times. 1.1 (of a person or a part of the body) unwell or injured. （人或身体的某部位）有病的；受伤的 a crook knee 受伤的膝盖。 Example sentencesExamples And despite battling a weak heart and a crook knee, Donald can't see himself giving away his volunteer work anytime soon. Michael came to Britain when his frail crook father returned and gave himself up in May, after 35 years on the run. Just like a carpet layer gets crook knees, people in the drug scene will end up in jail or dead. There is also no doubt it makes you crook next day. ‘I'm not a doctor but if blokes are crook they should stay home,’ he said. 1.2 Dishonest; illegal. 不诚实的；非法的 some pretty crook things went on there 那儿发生了一些在相当程度上是违法的事情。 Example sentencesExamples For the most part, this is true; nobody really needs a third party to inform them that their boss is a crook bastard. Phrases be crook on informal Be annoyed by. 〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉对…发火（或生气） you're crook on me because I didn't walk out with you 因为我没有和你一起去罢工，你在对我生气。 Example sentencesExamples ‘What a relief, I'd have been crook on myself if I'd have mucked up then, ’. What fascinated me though was in Wallace's communist football Utopia he was crook on what some clubs were able to pay their assistant coaches. I was crook on them, but fortunately with time you learn to give it up. ‘Madam, you've been crook on me ever since I refused to sleep with you’. go crook informal Lose one's temper. 〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉发脾气 we rolled him for his overcoat—you ought to have heard him go crook Example sentencesExamples He invited me in just in case Bev went crook. And if that happens, you don't tend to go crook at your partner, and if you do go crook at your partner, well then you have little chance of being a good doubles players I think. Derivatives crookery noun Our adult children now all do their banking on the internet and are happy to take their chances with electronic crookery, but I am of the old school who likes to see the whites of a teller's eyes when making a deposit. Example sentencesExamples And that was before the extent of his crookery became visible to the wider community. Elect me, and crime, crookery, criminality, venality and bad parking will vanish like crossroads dancing. When we each get up to our particular bit of crookery and deviousness we don't say, ‘I'm stealing or cheating’ we say ‘I'm beating the system.’ The Guardian summarised these difficulties rather well: ‘Missing [but not kidnapped or murdered] children, jealous spouses, petty crookery, ostrich rustling and beauty contest corruption.’ Origin Middle English (in the sense 'hooked tool or weapon'): from Old Norse krókr 'hook'. A noun sense 'deceit, guile, trickery' (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked. A crook was originally a hooked tool or weapon. The source is Old Norse krokr ‘hook’. The word used to mean ‘dishonest trick, guile’ in medieval English, and although this sense had fallen from use by the 17th century it gave rise to villains being known as crooks in late 19th-century America. In Australia and New Zealand crook has meant ‘bad, unpleasant’, ‘dishonest, unscrupulous’, and ‘ill, unwell’ since the late 1890s. These uses might come from the old British thieves' slang sense ‘stolen’. Rhymes betook, book, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook noun.1 phr. Definition of crook in US English: crook nounkro͝okkrʊk 1The hooked staff of a shepherd. （牧羊人的）曲柄杖 Example sentencesExamples The haft of the crook must be formed of unpeeled hazel for the shepherds will not have ash. The challenge replicates the traditions of the game when shepherds played across country hitting stones with their crooks. Reaper stood calmly with the base of his scythe planted on the ground, looking like a shepherd with his crook. Every year more and more shepherds hang up their crooks. The shepherd's crook is not for beating the sheep, but for catching hold of them if they go into danger where the shepherd's arm can't reach them. Synonyms walking stick, cane, staff 1.1 A bishop's crozier. （主教的）权杖 Example sentencesExamples Dressed in full regalia with mitre and crook, Bishop David then led a prayer of thanks for the new school and everyone who worked and studied in it. Now I find myself completely unmoved by badges of hierarchy, of mitres and crooks and crowns. Instead the Mitchell brothers are generally busy making crooks for bishops and hikers. Coming forward, I looked at our canonical crook in suspicion. It bears the images of a bishop's crook, a few trees and some clumps of grass inside a shield. 1.2 A bend in something, especially at the elbow in a person's arm. 弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处） her head was cradled in the crook of Luke's left arm 她的头枕在卢克的左胳膊的臂弯里。 Example sentencesExamples To draw blood for the test, a nurse or technician cleans the skin over a vein, usually in the crook of your elbow, inserts a needle, and collects blood into a syringe or vial. Rebekah looked lovingly down on the sweet face in the crook of her elbow. ‘Well, this is my stop,’ she sighed, rubbing the crook of her elbow. Tristan grabbed the crook of my elbow and led me outside. She brought the free arm up to join the other one under her head, and settled her forehead into the crook of her elbow. Before walking in I'd removed my shoes so as to make even less noise and now I held them in the crook of my elbow as I tiptoed across the entryway to the stairs. The crook of his elbow hurt from the blood transfusion. The lover lies face down on the ground under the full moon, with his head barely resting in the crook of his elbow. Her green jacket was loosely draped in the crook of her elbow, and her jeans were clean, as if they had been purchased recently. Scars face me, across her wrist and in the crook of her elbow. I suddenly found it hard to concentrate on the needle the first doctor had shoved into the crook of my elbow. A black smudge squiggles in the crook of his elbow. I started getting patches of it in the crook of my elbows, on my neck and around my eyes. Then I grab the TV controller and bottle in right hand, baby safely tucked away in the crook of my left elbow and plop down on the couch. That's not as easy a task as it was when I was a young man, but there one was, neatly in the crook of my elbow. She nodded silently and stared stupidly down at the crook of her elbow. I tapped a vein in the crook of my elbow to demonstrate. The stethoscope that comes with some models is used to listen to the sounds your blood makes as it flows through the brachial artery in the crook of your elbow. Laughing, Eryalith grabbed the crook of Ariane's elbow. Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet. Synonyms bend, curve, curvature, kink, bow, elbow, angle, fork, intersection 1.3 A piece of extra tubing which can be fitted to a brass instrument to lower the pitch by a set interval. Example sentencesExamples Further notes became available when added lengths of tube, known as crooks or shanks, could be fitted. Early in the 18th century, horns began to be made on which separate coils of tubing of different lengths, called crooks, could be inserted at the mouthpipe to give the horn a different key. 1.4 A metal tube on which the reed of some wind instruments (such as the bassoon) is set. 2informal A person who is dishonest or a criminal. 〈非正式〉骗子；罪犯 Example sentencesExamples Frankly, most voters think most politicians, and their staffs, are a bunch of crooks already. The crooks behind it use letters, faxes and e-mails to randomly target victims and although most people ignore them police estimate that about one per cent actually respond. Still, there was no dent in the criminal network, with crooks continuing to appear on the front page more often than the good guys. Only those with something to hide - like crooks, terrorists, fraudsters and benefit cheats - should worry. We're programmed to believe that the athletes we watch are all crooks, criminals and creeps. A small-time crook threatens to blow up a New York landmark unless his demands for money are met. Police have spoken of their disgust at a new fraud scam where crooks pretend to represent the Vatican and dupe the public into handing over bank details. He drew crowds, cared for the marginalised, made friends with prostitutes and crooks, and called ordinary people like you and me to be his followers. This data is then surreptitiously transmitted to crooks, allowing their young accomplices to later empty bank accounts. The crooks range from small-time gangsters to big-time drug traffickers and international terrorists. He's shoved a microphone under the noses of more crooks than a shepherd convention. We want our border patrol agents chasing crooks and thieves and terrorists not good-hearted people coming here to work. The sport, if that's what it is, has seen way more than its fair share of gangsters and con men and other crooks. The majority of prisoners are crooks, thugs, murderers and rapists, who took the lives of people and did irreparable damage to women and young girls. Its history is littered with crooks, conmen and charlatans. This evoked from Augustine the sad observation that there are crooks in every profession. Some of those who want him dead are the hardest crooks in the country. Bernie's team work hard to catch thieves, whether car crooks or shoplifters. To suggest that Scotland would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration. The message going out to the crooks and the fraudsters is that this Government takes immigration fraud seriously, and that the behaviour will not be tolerated. Synonyms criminal, lawbreaker, offender, villain, black hat, delinquent, malefactor, culprit, wrongdoer, transgressor, sinner verbkro͝okkrʊk [with object] Bend (something, especially a finger as a signal) 弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处） he crooked a finger for the waitress 他向女服务员弯弯手指，让她过来。 Example sentencesExamples Phil nodded his head and crooked a finger before turning and walking off to his bedroom. She's neglected her tab until it's burnt down to the filter, leaving a dirty, grey finger crooking up at him. He crooked a finger at me, and Liv gave me a good shove on my behind. ‘Come with me,’ she said calmly, crooking her finger at him, turning and walking down the corridor. He crooked one arm out before him, fingers and thumb opening and closing, the other arm he bent into a ‘hump’ on his back. I crooked my finger at her with a victorious grin. You could have crooked your finger after the first night, and I would have come running. He stopped in front of my door and crooked his thumb towards it. I crooked a finger and used it to gently raise her chin up. Maude smiled, too, and crooked a finger, beckoning Lydia to come in. He looked at me and I shook my head and crooked my finger. Mabel pinned the girl with an extra firm, accessing look, before crooking a finger in Larry's direction, suggesting that he follow her. ‘Don't put your filthy hands on it,’ I said crooking a finger at her. He held up a bottle of beer, pointed at it, pointed at Hank, and crooked his finger invitingly. Rather than lead him home like a child, she made him crook his arm and she slipped her hand into it. A long, bony finger came crooking through, and turned the window handle. Mrs. Fitzgerald smiled icily at her son, and crooked a finger in the direction of the anxious butler. Moving to stand beside her chair, he crooked an arm. He crooked a beckoning finger. Caroline stopped walking and turned to her husband, crooking her finger. Synonyms cock, flex, bend, curve, curl, angle, hook, bow adjectivekro͝okkrʊk Australian, NZ informal 1(especially of a situation) bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory. 〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉（尤指情况）糟糕的；令人不快的；令人不满的 it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s 20世纪70年代早期，这块地简直糟透了。 Example sentencesExamples We had a bad phone call at about 1.30 in the morning and after that have had a couple of crook letters. This is about units in the normal market, which are regarded by many as a crook investment at the best of times. So laughter is the answer to all the crook things that happen. 1.1 (of a person or a part of the body) unwell or injured. （人或身体的某部位）有病的；受伤的 a crook knee 受伤的膝盖。 Example sentencesExamples There is also no doubt it makes you crook next day. Michael came to Britain when his frail crook father returned and gave himself up in May, after 35 years on the run. ‘I'm not a doctor but if blokes are crook they should stay home,’ he said. Just like a carpet layer gets crook knees, people in the drug scene will end up in jail or dead. And despite battling a weak heart and a crook knee, Donald can't see himself giving away his volunteer work anytime soon. 1.2 Dishonest; illegal. 不诚实的；非法的 some pretty crook things went on there 那儿发生了一些在相当程度上是违法的事情。 Example sentencesExamples For the most part, this is true; nobody really needs a third party to inform them that their boss is a crook bastard. Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked.
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