hooker: Meaning and Definition of

hook•er

1. a person or thing that hooks.
2. prostitute.
3. a large drink of liquor.
4. a concealed problem, flaw, or drawback; a catch.
5. a player who hooks the ball in the front line of scrummage.
6. (cap.)an Amish Mennonite.

hook•er

1. any old-fashioned or clumsy vessel.
2. any fishing vessel working with hooks and lines rather than nets.

Hook•er

1. 1814–79, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
2. 1554?–1600, English author and clergyman.
3. 1586?–1647, English Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of the colony of Connecticut.