Anagrams of: HOOKEY

• failure to attend (especially school)

• effusively or insincerely emotional

• artificially formal

• a catch for locking a door

• a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook

• anything that serves as an enticement

• a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something

• a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something

• a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer

• a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent

• a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket

• fasten with a hook

• rip off; ask an unreasonable price

• make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle

• hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left

• take by theft

• make off with belongings of others

• hit with a hook

• catch with a hook

• to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)

• secure with the foot

• entice and trap

• approach with an offer of sexual favors

• fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment

• an oppressive power

• two items of the same kind

• a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke

• support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end

• a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together

• stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team

• become joined or linked together

• link with or as with a yoke

• put a yoke on or join with a yoke

• A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.

• A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.

• Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.

• The curved needle used in the art of crochet.

• The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.

• A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.

• A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.

• A snare; a trap.

• (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.

• Removal or expulsion from a group or activity

• A field sown two years in succession.

• (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.

• (authorship) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.

• A finesse.

• A jack (the playing card).

• A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.

• A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.

• A ship's anchor.

• Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.

• (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.

• A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.

• A háček.

• Senses relating to sports.

• Something contrived or artificial.

• To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.

• To scrounge, to grub.

• senseless talk

• an endorsement

• metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated

• United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)

• something crucial for explaining

• pitch of the voice

• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music

• a kilogram of a narcotic drug

• a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple

• a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida

• (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court

• a list of answers to a test

• a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations

• a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access

• mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)

• the central building block at the top of an arch or vault

• a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed

• serving as an essential component

• identify as in botany or biology, for example

• provide with a key

• vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key

• regulate the musical pitch of

• harmonize with or adjust to