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the moment a song grabs your collar and refuses to let go
means A hook is a curved or bent piece of metal, wood, or other material used to catch, hold, or hang something — and by extension, anything that catches and holds attention, like the catchy part of a song.
from From Old English 'hoc,' a curved tool for catching, with relatives across the Germanic family — Dutch 'hoek' and German 'Haken' among them — all tracing back to a root meaning 'to bend.' The thing was literally a bent shape, and the word never lost that curve: a fishhook bends to snag a fish, a boxer's hook bends the arm, and a musical hook bends your ear back for one more listen.
- music
- a great hook can outlast the song's name
- boxing
- a properly thrown hook turns the whole body
- fishing
- the barb exists so escape costs more
- pirates
- Captain Hook lost a hand to a crocodile
- writing
- the first line decides if you keep reading
captain hook — villain in j.m. barrie's peter pan, the pirate with a hand replaced by a hook
hookworm — parasitic nematode that infects over 400 million people globally, named for its hook-like mouthparts
hook island — island in the whitsundays, queensland australia, site of the 1967 shag island incident