| 1. | a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar. |
| 2. | a three-piece latching device consisting of a hook attached to a screw eye or an eyebolt and a separate screw eye or eyebolt that the hook engages as it bridges a gap, as one between a door and a jamb or a gate and a gatepost. |
| 3. | Also called eyehook. the two-piece portion of such a device consisting of a hook and a screw eye. |
| hook and eye n.
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