Definition of "hook-shaped" [hook-shaped]

• Shaped in the form of a hook (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• ""It's like a smiley face, with one eye," he said, describing the red, hook-shaped marks."
• "For more than a decade, Ponta dos Ganchos has been the area's only five-star lodging, located across Dolphin Bay from the island on a rocky, hook-shaped point that inspires its name."
• "As we left, a yellow-breasted kiskadee set off from the cannon, ascending in a great arc over the water, soaring high above the hook-shaped archipelago of the Great Sound toward the distant outline of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, the beat of her wings thankfully undisturbed by the sound of gunfire."