Skyhook
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈskaɪˌhʊk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Skyhook is a noun meaning A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
Meaning
A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
More Meanings
- An overhead winch.
- A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
- (tennis) A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
- (climbing) A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
- (board sports) A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
- (astronautics) A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
- (slang) A CB radio antenna.
Example Sentences
It wasn't a miraculous skyhook—no god was needed.
Tom bought the rights to a plastic board that had a skateboard deck and skyhooks.
[…] despite the absence of the proverbial home-grown 75-foot high steel "sky hook."
It was during those battles that ORBITAL-class armor was deployed to secure and defend the skyhooks and tethers above Earth, Luna, and Mars.
Word Forms
- skyhooks
Synonyms for skyhook
Depending on context, synonyms include bathook.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include boathook, bidhook, hook, grapplehook, boat-hook, firehook.
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