skyhook.
A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
Meaning & usage
A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
An overhead winch.
A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
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.
A CB radio antenna.
A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
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.