bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory:it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s (of a person or a part of the body) unwell or injured:a crook knee dishonest; illegal:some pretty crook things went on there
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Universal
1the hooked staff of a shepherd: seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs a bend in something, especially at the elbow in a person’s arm:her head was cradled in the crook of Luke’s left arm a piece of extra tubing which can be fitted to a brass instrument to lower the pitch by a set interval.
2 informal a person who is dishonest or a criminal: the man’s a crook, he’s not to be trusted
bend (something, especially a finger as a signal):he crooked a finger for the waitress