Definition of "hooklike" []

• Resembling a hook. (adjective)

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• "The real treasure, though, is the aforementioned "Windstorm," a percolating summer concoction with a hooklike gull's cry."
• "I know very little about them except that they grow and grow and that they cover the hillside now, and when I pass by them with my lawnmower buzzing they catch at my shirt and my arm with their remarkably hooklike sharp thorns."
• "De Mestral shoved a bit of burr under a microscope and saw that its barbed, hooklike seed pods meshed beautifully with the looped fibers in his clothes."