Crook
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Crook can refer to the following:
- Crooking is a verb to refer to the action of creating a bend or curve; for example, crooking a finger. Hence a crook may be anything that is crooked.
- * Specifically, a crook is a tool with a crook in it, such as a shepherd's staff or prelate's crosier; see also flail and crook.
- * In music, a crook is a length of tubing used to change the pitch of a natural horn or other brass instrument; by removing one crook of a given length and replacing it with a crook of another, the entire pitch of the instrument would change. A crook is also the term for a bent or curved pipe that connects the reed to the instrument body on some double reed instruments; in American usage this is generally called a bocal. Musicians who play the natural horn (the predecessor to the modern horn) use crooks to change the instrument into different keys. These are pieces of tubing that are inserted into the horn to change its length.
- Crook is a slang term for a criminal or a person of questionable morality. Its most famous use in U.S. history came in a speech by president Richard Nixon, who while defending himself from the Watergate scandal proclaimed: "I am not a crook." The adjective crooked can refer to such persons or actions. This version of the term may also be archaically used as a verb in reference to becoming a criminal or causing another to become a criminal.
- Biblically, "crooked" meant "twisted", "corrupt", or "not straight".
- In Australian slang, crook (adjective) means unwell (amongst other meanings).
- Places:
- * Crook, County Durham, England
- * Crook, Cumbria, England
- * Crook, Devon, England
- * Crook, Colorado, United States of America.
- * Crook County, Oregon, United States of America.
- Persons:
- * Ann Marie Crooks, a female bodybuilder and professional wrestler
- * George Crook was an American general.
- * Mackenzie Crook is a British actor.
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