skyhook (English, noun)
expansion: skyhook (plural skyhooks)
Senses:
glosses: A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
glosses: An overhead winch.
glosses: A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
glosses: A CB radio antenna.
tags: slang
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
qualifier: board sports
glosses: A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
Forms:
form: skyhooks
tags: plural