Hook (disambiguation)

A hook is a tool with a curved end. Hook may also refer to:

Tools

 * Hook for similar tools
 * Hook hand, prosthesis made from a hook

United Kingdom

 * Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village and civil parish
 * Hook, Hart, Hampshire, a small town and civil parish
 * Hook railway station
 * Hook, Fareham, Hampshire, a village
 * Hook, London, a suburban area
 * Hook, Pembrokeshire, a village
 * Hook, Wiltshire, a small village

Other

 * Hook Island, Queensland, Australia
 * Hook Point, Queensland, Australia
 * Hook Peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland
 * Hook, New Zealand
 * Hook River, New Zealand
 * Hook of Holland or The Hook, a port town in the Netherlands
 * Hook granite massif, Zambia

Language

 * Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark attached to letters in various alphabets
 * Hook above, a diacritical mark above letters in the Vietnamese alphabet
 * Rhotic hook, a diacritical mark attached to symbols in the International phonetic alphabet

Characters

 * Hook (Transformers), several characters in the Transformers universe
 * Captain Hook, a fictional pirate in J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan and other works
 * Mr. Hook, a character in several 1940s American animated cartoon shorts produced for the US Navy
 * Trooper Hook, the title character of Trooper Hook, a 1957 Western film, played by Joel McCrea
 * Hook, a playable character in Honkai: Star Rail

Television and film

 * Hook (film), a 1991 fantasy film by Steven Spielberg continuing J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy
 * The Hook (1963 film), a 1963 Korean War war film
 * The Hook (1976 film), a 1976 giallo film
 * The Hook (2004 film), a 2004 French thriller film
 * Hook (2022 TV series), a program broadcast by ARY Digital

Other arts and entertainment

 * Narrative hook, a literary technique designed to grab the reader's interest
 * The Hook (album), by Jukka Tolonen
 * "Hook" (Blues Traveler song), from their 1994 album, Four
 * Hook (music), a catchy musical passage
 * The Hook (screenplay), an unproduced screenplay by playwright Arthur Miller
 * Hook (video game), four video games based on the Spielberg film

Sports

 * Hook (bowling), a curving ball
 * Hook (boxing), a boxing punch
 * Hook (cricket), a shot in cricket
 * Hook shot, a type of shot in basketball
 * Hooking (ice hockey), a penalty
 * Hook, part of the hook and ladder trick play in football
 * Hook shot, in a type of misplayed golf shot
 * Curveball, a type of baseball pitch

People

 * Hook (surname), a list of people
 * Hook (nickname), a list of people
 * Hook., author abbreviation of English botanist William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865)
 * Hook.f., author abbreviation of English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), the son of William Jackson Hooker

Other uses

 * Hook (computer programming), a computer programming technique
 * Telephone hook, an electrical switch which indicates when the telephone has been hung up
 * Mil Mi-6, a Soviet/Russian heavy transport helicopter nicknamed "Hook"
 * The Hook, a classic urban legend
 * The Hook (newspaper), a weekly Virginia newspaper from 2002 to 2013
 * WFFM, a radio station licensed to Ashburn, Georgia, formerly branded "Hook FM"
 * Angle (journalism)