Definition of "hook on" []

• Adopt (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "We attach one end of a bright yellow vinyl towrope to the root base of the first shrub and the other end to the tow hook on the front bumper of the Land Cruiser."
• "By a hook on one of the anterior legs (it possesses the regulation half-dozen) it had attached itself to a tiny splinter on the under-side of the verandah rail, and so hung, the body being at right angles to its support."
• "I bustled in past the office manager, dumped my down jacket on a hook on the coatrack, and slithered through the doorway into the room where Tom sat, phone to ear, his shoulders hunched up in his storm-cloud array."