crook

crook

noun

Definition of CROOK

1

a person who has committed a crime <a guy at the bar was raving about how all politicians are basically crooks>

Synonyms crook, culprit, felon, lawbreaker, malefactor, miscreant, offender

Related Words misdemeanant; accomplice, principal; desperado, outlaw; convict, jailbird; perp, perpetrator; evildoer, gallows bird, misdoer, misfeasor, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, villain, wrongdoer; blackhander, button man, gangster, hoodlum, hooligan, mobster, racketeer, thug; enforcer, gun, gunman, gunsel [slang], hit man, triggerman; backslider, recidivist, relapser, repeater; accused, arrestee, defendant, detainee, fish, suspect

Near Antonyms gangbuster, lawman

2

something that curves or is curved <carried the baby in the crook of her arm>

Synonyms angle, arc, arch, bow, crook, curvature, curve, inflection, turn, wind

Related Words kink, warp; circle, ring, ringlet, round; coil, curl, curlicue (also curlycue); buckle, convolution, flexure, fold, loop, spiral, swirl, twist, winding; incurvature, reflection; decline, inclination, incline, slope; corner, turnoff; dogleg, hairpin