# Hook (disambiguation)

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

## Tools

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

## Places
### 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

## Arts and entertainment
### 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

### Music

* The Hook (album), by Jukka Tolonen; and title track song
* "Hook" (Blues Traveler song), from their 1994 album, Four
* Hook (music), a catchy musical passage

### Other arts and entertainment

* Narrative hook, a literary technique designed to grab the reader's interest
* The Hook (screenplay), an unproduced screenplay by playwright Arthur Miller
* Hook (video game), four video games based on the Spielberg film

## Sports

* Hook (bowling), the second phase of bowling ball motion, following the skid phase and preceding the roll phase
* 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
* Harry Aleman (1939–2010), nicknamed "The Hook", American mobster for the Chicago Outfit

## 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)