EGAVE

skyhook

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
  2. noun An overhead winch.
  3. noun A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun A CB radio antenna.
  6. noun A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
  7. noun A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
  8. noun A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.

Similar words

boathook bid hook mousing hook bidhook can hook eye hook hook grapplehook chimney hook boat-hook

Often followed by

balloon balloons and or is

Word family

skyhooks

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