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skyhook.

A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈskaɪˌhʊk/
  1. A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.

  2. An overhead winch.

  3. A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.

  4. 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.

  5. A CB radio antenna.

    slang
  6. A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.

  7. A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.

  8. A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.

Where this word comes from

From sky + hook.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.