- a person or thing that hooks.
- prostitute.
- a large drink of liquor.
- a concealed problem, flaw, or drawback; a catch.
- a player who hooks the ball in the front line of scrummage.
- a contemptuous term used to refer to an Amish Mennonite.
- any old-fashioned or clumsy vessel.
- any fishing vessel working with hooks and lines rather than nets.
- Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
- English author and clergyman.
- English Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of the colony of Connecticut.
- a commercial fishing boat using hooks and lines instead of nets
- a sailing boat of the west of Ireland formerly used for cargo and now for pleasure sailing and racing
- a person or thing that hooks
- US and Canadian slang
- a draught of alcoholic drink, esp of spirits
- a prostitute
- the central forward in the front row of a scrum whose main job is to hook the ball
- John Lee. 1917–2001, US blues singer and guitarist
- Sir Joseph Dalton. 1817–1911, British botanist; director of Kew Gardens (1865–85)
- Richard. 1554–1600, British theologian, who influenced Anglican theology with The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593–97)
- Sir William Jackson. 1785–1865, British botanist; first director of Kew Gardens: father of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
