"crook" | Definition and Related Words

crook

Noun

Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime (synset 109997190)
is a type of: principal - (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement
subtypes:
- accessary, accessory - someone who helps another person commit a crime
- arsonist, firebug, incendiary - a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
- blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist - a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
- bootlegger, moonshiner - someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
- briber, suborner - someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
- coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter - a member of a conspiracy
- desperado, desperate criminal - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
- fugitive, fugitive from justice - someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
- gangster, mobster - a criminal who is a member of gang
- highbinder - a corrupt politician
- highjacker, hijacker - someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination
- goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie - an aggressive and violent young criminal
- gaolbird, jail bird, jailbird - a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly
- abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher - someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
- mafioso - a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States
- gangster's moll, gun moll, moll - the girlfriend of a gangster
- liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
- parolee, probationer - someone released on probation or on parole
- drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler, pusher - an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
- racketeer - someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
- raper, rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
- habitual criminal, recidivist, repeater - someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
- scofflaw - one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
- contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, runner, smuggler - someone who imports or exports without paying duties
- stealer, thief - a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
- traitor, treasonist - someone who betrays his country by committing treason
- law offender, lawbreaker, violator - someone who violates the law
specific instances:
- billie the kid, bonney, william h. bonney - United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881)
- james, jesse james - United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
- macgregor, rob roy, robert macgregor - Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734)
same as: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw
A circular segment of a curve (synset 113891966)
"a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"

is a type of: curve, curved shape - the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

subtypes: bight - a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

same as: bend, turn, twist
A long staff with one end being hook shaped (synset 103138769)
is a type of: staff - a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose

same as: shepherd's crook

Verb

Bend or cause to bend (synset 202038516)
"He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

is a type of: bend, flex - form a curve

subtypes: recurve - curve or bend (something) back or down

same as: curve

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