Hooker

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Hooker may refer to:

People

  • Hooker (surname)

Places

Antarctica

  • Mount Hooker (Antarctica)
  • Cape Hooker (Antarctica)
  • Cape Hooker (South Shetland Islands)

New Zealand

  • Hooker River
  • Hooker Valley Track
  • Mount Hooker (New Zealand) in the Southern Alps
  • Hooker Glacier (New Zealand), in the Southern Alps

United States

  • Hooker, California, an unincorporated community
  • Hooker, Georgia, an unincorporated community
  • Little Goose Creek (Kentucky), location of Hooker post office and river branch
  • Hooker, Missouri, a ghost town
  • Hooker, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • Hooker, Oklahoma, a city
  • Hooker, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
  • Hooker County, Nebraska
  • Hooker Township, Dixon County, Nebraska
  • Hooker Township, Gage County, Nebraska
  • Hooker Dam, a proposed dam on the Gila River in New Mexico
  • Hooker Falls, North Carolina
  • Mount Hooker (Wyoming)

Elsewhere

  • Mount Hooker (Canada), a mountain on the Continental Divide and border between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada
  • Hooker and Brown, mythical mountains alleged to exist in the Canadian Rockies
  • Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land, Russia

In sport

  • Hooker (rugby league), one of the positions in rugby league football
  • Hooker, one of the positions in rugby union football
  • In cricket, a batsman who plays the hook shot
  • An expert practitioner of catch wrestling
  • Hooker, book by Lou Thesz on professional wrestling
  • A boxer who is particularly known for throwing hooks

Other uses

  • Prostitute, colloquially called a "hooker"
  • Galway hooker, a traditional Irish fishing boat
  • Hooker Telescope, a 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory
  • Hooker Emerald, a 75-carat (15.0 g) emerald owned by the Smithsonian Institution
  • The title character of T. J. Hooker, an American police drama television program, played by William Shatner
  • "Hooker", a song by Pink from the album Try This
  • Hooker's Green, a particular mixture of green and blue

See also

  • Hooker Creek (disambiguation)
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