snook
pronunciation
How to pronounce snook in British English:
UK [snu:k]
How to pronounce snook in American English:
US [snʊk, snuk]
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- Noun:
- large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
Word Origin
- snook (n.)
- "derisive gesture," 1791, of unknown origin.
Example
- 1. You ever hook into a monster snook ?
- 2. He 's called snook , and he lives in a village of that ilk .
- 3. Juicy secret that not even olive snook the spy knows .
- 4. As a painter , she cocks a snook at traditional techniques .
- 5. Amelia took regular flying lessons from her instructor neta snook .