Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lunch hook

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English

Syllables: lunch hook
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person's hand.

Slang

Example Sentences

"It was a question of move, and move damn quick. He'd got a flare pistol in his lunch hook when I fell on him, and your little crowd would have looked pretty if he'd let it off."

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

lunch hooks (plural)

Questions

What does lunch hook mean?: A person's hand.

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